Yahoo Finance Will Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc's (LON:SEPL) Earnings Grow In The Next 12 Months?
On 30 June 2019, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc (LON:SEPL) announced its earnings update. Overall, analysts seem cautiously optimistic, as a 5.5% increase in profits is expected in the upcoming year, relative to the past 5-year average growth rate of -2.2%. Presently, with latest-twelve-month earnings at US$147m, we should see this growing to US$155m by 2020. In this article, I've outline a few earnings growth rates to give you a sense of the market sentiment for Seplat Petroleum Development in the longer term. Readers that are interested in understanding the company beyond these figures should research its fundamentals here.
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Exciting times ahead?
The longer term expectations from the 6 analysts of SEPL is tilted towards the negative sentiment. Since forecasting becomes more difficult further into the future, broker analysts generally project out to around three years. I've plotted out each year's earnings expectations and inserted a line of best fit to calculate an annual growth rate from the slope in order to understand the overall trajectory of SEPL's earnings growth over these next few years.
This results in an annual growth rate of -7.2% based on the most recent earnings level of US$147m to the final forecast of US$124m by 2022. However, if we exclude extraordinary items from earnings, we see that the profits is predicted to rise over time, resulting in an EPS of $0.46 in the final year of forecast compared to the current $0.26 EPS today. The primary reason for earnings contraction is due to top-line expansion of 1.1%, which is predicted to lag cost growth leading up to 2022. Furthermore, the current 20% margin is expected to contract to 16% by the end of 2022.
Next Steps:
Future outlook is only one aspect when you're building an investment case for a stock. For Seplat Petroleum Development, I've put together three fundamental factors you should further examine:
Financial Health: Does it have a healthy balance sheet? Take a look at our free balance sheet analysis with six simple checks on key factors like leverage and risk.
Valuation: What is Seplat Petroleum Development worth today? Is the stock undervalued, even when its growth outlook is factored into its intrinsic value? The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether Seplat Petroleum Development is currently mispriced by the market.
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