Yahoo Finance What Should You Know About National Vision Holdings, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:EYE) Earnings Outlook?
National Vision Holdings, Inc.'s (NASDAQ:EYE) latest earnings announcement in December 2018 indicated that the business faced a major headwind with earnings deteriorating by -45%. Below is my commentary, albeit very simple and high-level, on how market analysts predict National Vision Holdings's earnings growth trajectory over the next few years and whether the future looks brighter. 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 upcoming year seems rather muted, with earnings expanding by a single digit 8.9%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more buoyant with rates generating double digit 45% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting US$38m by 2022.
While it is useful to be aware of the growth rate year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more beneficial to evaluate the rate at which the earnings are rising or falling every year, on average. The benefit of this approach is that we can get a bigger picture of the direction of National Vision Holdings's earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To calculate this rate, I've inserted 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 17%. This means, we can expect National Vision Holdings will grow its earnings by 17% every year for the next few years.
Next Steps:
For National Vision Holdings, there are three relevant aspects 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.
Future Earnings: How does EYE's growth rate compare to its peers and the wider market? Dig deeper into the analyst consensus number for the upcoming years by interacting with our free analyst growth expectation chart.
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