On 31 March 2019, Vtech Holdings Limited (HKG:303) announced its earnings update. Overall, analyst consensus outlook appear cautiously optimistic, as a 5.6% increase in profits is expected in the upcoming year, against the past 5-year average growth rate of -1.5%. By 2020, we can expect Vtech Holdings’s bottom line to reach US$181m, a jump from the current trailing-twelve-month of US$171m. Below is a brief commentary around Vtech Holdings's earnings outlook going forward, which may give you a sense of market sentiment for the company. Readers that are interested in understanding the company beyond these figures should research its fundamentals here.

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Can we expect Vtech Holdings to keep growing?

The longer term expectations from the 4 analysts of 303 is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Since forecasting becomes more difficult further into the future, broker analysts generally project out to around three years. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for 303, I’ve plotted out each year’s earnings expectations and inserted a line of best fit to determine an annual rate of growth from the slope of this line.

From the current net income level of US$171m and the final forecast of US$198m by 2022, the annual rate of growth for 303’s earnings is 6.4%. This leads to an EPS of $0.79 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of $0.68. In 2022, 303's profit margin will have expanded from 7.9% to 8.4%.

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