Yahoo Finance Growth Investors: Industry Analysts Just Upgraded Their UWM Holdings Corporation (NYSE:UWMC) Revenue Forecasts By 13%
UWM Holdings Corporation (NYSE:UWMC) shareholders will have a reason to smile today, with the analysts making substantial upgrades to this year's forecasts. The consensus estimated revenue numbers rose, with their view now clearly much more bullish on the company's business prospects. UWM Holdings has also found favour with investors, with the stock up an impressive 15% to US$4.80 over the past week. Could this upgrade be enough to drive the stock even higher?
Following the latest upgrade, the seven analysts covering UWM Holdings provided consensus estimates of US$2.0b revenue in 2023, which would reflect an uncomfortable 16% decline on its sales over the past 12 months. Statutory earnings per share are supposed to crater 43% to US$0.26 in the same period. Before this latest update, the analysts had been forecasting revenues of US$1.8b and earnings per share (EPS) of US$0.25 in 2023. The most recent forecasts are noticeably more optimistic, with a nice gain to revenue estimates and a lift to earnings per share as well.
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With these upgrades, we're not surprised to see that the analysts have lifted their price target 14% to US$4.03 per share. There's another way to think about price targets though, and that's to look at the range of price targets put forward by analysts, because a wide range of estimates could suggest a diverse view on possible outcomes for the business. Currently, the most bullish analyst values UWM Holdings at US$5.50 per share, while the most bearish prices it at US$3.00. Note the wide gap in analyst price targets? This implies to us that there is a fairly broad range of possible scenarios for the underlying business.
These estimates are interesting, but it can be useful to paint some more broad strokes when seeing how forecasts compare, both to the UWM Holdings' past performance and to peers in the same industry. These estimates imply that sales are expected to slow, with a forecast annualised revenue decline of 16% by the end of 2023. This indicates a significant reduction from annual growth of 20% over the last five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in the same industry are forecast to see their revenue grow 7.2% annually for the foreseeable future. It's pretty clear that UWM Holdings' revenues are expected to perform substantially worse than the wider industry.
The Bottom Line
The most important thing to take away from this upgrade is that analysts upgraded their earnings per share estimates for this year, expecting improving business conditions. Pleasantly, analysts also upgraded their revenue estimates, and their forecasts suggest the business is expected to grow slower than the wider market. There was also an increase in the price target, suggesting that there is more optimism baked into the forecasts than there was previously. Seeing the dramatic upgrade to this year's forecasts, it might be time to take another look at UWM Holdings.
Analysts are clearly in love with UWM Holdings at the moment, but before diving in - you should be aware that we've identified some warning flags with the business, such as its declining profit margins. You can learn more, and discover the 2 other flags we've identified, for free on our platform here.
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