Yahoo Finance Will Archer-Daniels-Midland Company's (NYSE:ADM) Earnings Grow In The Next 12 Months?
Since Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) released its earnings in March 2019, analysts seem fairly confident, as a 9.1% increase in profits is expected in the upcoming year, compared with the past 5-year average growth rate of -2.3%. Presently, with latest-twelve-month earnings at US$1.8b, we should see this growing to US$2.0b by 2020. I will provide a brief commentary around the figures and analyst expectations in the near term. For those keen to understand more about other aspects of the company, you can research its fundamentals here.
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How is Archer-Daniels-Midland going to perform in the near future?
The longer term expectations from the 11 analysts of ADM 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 ADM, 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$1.8b and the final forecast of US$2.0b by 2022, the annual rate of growth for ADM’s earnings is 1.5%. This leads to an EPS of $3.72 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of $3.21. By the end of 2022, analysts are expecting earnings to outpace revenue, and margins to expand from the current 2.8% to 2.9%.
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