Yahoo Finance What Are Analysts Expecting From Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) In Next 12 Months?
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Looking at Murphy Oil Corporation's (NYSE:MUR) earnings update in March 2019, analyst consensus outlook appear pessimistic, as a 9.3% fall in profits is expected in the upcoming year. However, compared to its 5-year track record of the average earnings growth rate of -12%, this is still an improvement. With trailing-twelve-month net income at current levels of US$415m, the consensus growth rate suggests that earnings will decline to US$376m 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 Murphy Oil going to perform in the near future?
The longer term expectations from the 11 analysts of MUR is tilted towards the negative sentiment. Since forecasting becomes more difficult further into the future, broker analysts generally project out to around three years. To reduce the year-on-year volatility of analyst earnings forecast, I've inserted a line of best fit through the expected earnings figures to determine the annual growth rate from the slope of the line.
By 2022, MUR's earnings should reach US$330m, from current levels of US$415m, resulting in an annual growth rate of -2.7%. EPS reaches $1.98 in the final year of forecast compared to the current $2.4 EPS today. The main reason for MUR’s earnings contraction is cost outpacing top line growth of 5.7% over the next few years. Furthermore, the current 16% margin is expected to contract to 11% by the end of 2022.
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