Yahoo Finance Will Smith & Nephew plc's (LON:SN.) Earnings Grow Over The Next Year?
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Looking at Smith & Nephew plc's (LON:SN.) earnings update in December 2018, it seems that analyst forecasts are fairly bearish, with earnings expected to decline by 5.2% in the upcoming year relative to the past 5-year average growth rate of 10.0%. With trailing-twelve-month net income at current levels of US$663m, the consensus growth rate suggests that earnings will decline to US$628m by 2020. I will provide a brief commentary around the figures and analyst expectations in the near term. Investors wanting to learn more about other aspects of the company should research its fundamentals here.
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Can we expect Smith & Nephew to keep growing?
The longer term expectations from the 17 analysts of SN. is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Generally, broker analysts tend to make predictions for up to three years given the lack of visibility beyond this point. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for SN., I’ve plotted out each year’s earnings expectations and inserted a line of best fit to determine an annual rate of growth from the slope of this line.
From the current net income level of US$663m and the final forecast of US$873m by 2022, the annual rate of growth for SN.’s earnings is 10%. This leads to an EPS of $1.0 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of $0.76. Margins are currently sitting at 14%, which is expected to expand to 16% by 2022.
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