What Should You Know About Pixium Vision SA's (EPA:PIX) Earnings Outlook?

Pixium Vision SA's (EPA:PIX) most recent earnings announcement in December 2018 signalled that losses became smaller relative to the prior year's level - great news for investors Below, I've laid out key numbers on how market analysts view Pixium Vision's earnings growth outlook over the next couple of years and whether the future looks brighter. Note that I will be looking at net income excluding extraordinary items to get a better understanding of the underlying drivers of earnings.

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Analysts' outlook for next year seems positive, with earnings becoming less negative, reaching -€10.6m in 2020.

ENXTPA:PIX Past and Future Earnings, April 22nd 2019
ENXTPA:PIX Past and Future Earnings, April 22nd 2019

Even though it’s informative understanding the growth rate year by year relative to today’s figure, it may be more beneficial evaluating the rate at which the business is rising or falling on average every year. The benefit of this method is that it ignores near term flucuations and accounts for the overarching direction of Pixium Vision's earnings trajectory over time, fluctuate up and down. 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 -13%. This means, we can anticipate Pixium Vision will chip away at a rate of -13% every year for the next couple of years.

Next Steps:

For Pixium Vision, there are three pertinent factors you should further examine:

  1. 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.

  2. Future Earnings: How does PIX'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.

  3. Other High-Growth Alternatives: Are there other high-growth stocks you could be holding instead of PIX? Explore our interactive list of stocks with large growth potential to get an idea of what else is out there you may be missing!

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