Yahoo Finance What Should We Expect From Schneider Electric S.E.'s (EPA:SU) Earnings In The Years Ahead?
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The latest earnings announcement Schneider Electric S.E. (EPA:SU) released in December 2018 suggested that the business benefited from a small tailwind, eventuating to a single-digit earnings growth of 5.0%. Investors may find it useful to understand how market analysts predict Schneider Electric's earnings growth trajectory over the next few years and whether the future looks even brighter than the past. I will be using net income excluding extraordinary items in order to exclude one-off volatility which I am not interested in.
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Market analysts' prospects for the coming year seems positive, with earnings climbing by a robust 11%. This growth seems to continue into the following year with rates reaching double digit 20% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting €3.0b by 2022.
Although it is useful to understand the growth year by year relative to today’s figure, it may be more insightful estimating the rate at which the company is growing every year, on average. The benefit of this technique is that it ignores near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Schneider Electric's earnings trajectory over time, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To compute this rate, I've appended a line of best fit through the forecasted earnings by market analysts. The slope of this line is the rate of earnings growth, which in this case is 8.4%. This means that, we can anticipate Schneider Electric will grow its earnings by 8.4% every year for the next couple of years.
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