Yahoo Finance Will Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.’s (NYSE:NCLH) Earnings Grow In The Years Ahead?
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.’s (NYSE:NCLH) latest earnings update in December 2018 revealed that the business experienced a strong tailwind, eventuating to a double-digit earnings growth of 26%. Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts view Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’s earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of 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’ consensus outlook for this coming year seems rather subdued, with earnings climbing by a single digit 6.5%. The growth outlook in the following year seems much more positive with rates generating double digit 20% compared to today’s earnings, and finally hitting US$1.2b by 2022.
Although it’s informative knowing the growth year by year relative to today’s value, it may be more valuable to determine the rate at which the earnings are moving on average every year. The pro of this technique is that we can get a better picture of the direction of Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings’s earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To compute this rate, I’ve appended a line of best fit through analyst consensus of forecasted earnings. The slope of this line is the rate of earnings growth, which in this case is 9.4%. This means that, we can assume Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings will grow its earnings by 9.4% every year for the next few years.
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