Will Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited's (HKG:338) Earnings Grow In The Next 12 Months?
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On 31 December 2018, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited (HKG:338) released its earnings update. Generally, analysts seem cautiously bearish, with earnings expected to grow by 3.6% in the upcoming year compared with the higher past 5-year average growth rate of 36%. With trailing-twelve-month net income at current levels of CN¥5.3b, we should see this rise to CN¥5.5b in 2020. Below is a brief commentary around Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical's earnings outlook going forward, which may give you a sense of market sentiment for the company. Investors wanting to learn more about other aspects of the company should research its fundamentals here.
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How is Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical going to perform in the near future?
The longer term expectations from the 10 analysts of 338 is tilted towards the negative sentiment. Broker analysts tend to forecast up to three years ahead due to a lack of clarity around the business trajectory beyond this. To understand the overall trajectory of 338's earnings growth over these next fews years, I've fitted a line through these analyst earnings forecast to determine an annual growth rate from the slope.
This results in an annual growth rate of -2.2% based on the most recent earnings level of CN¥5.3b to the final forecast of CN¥5.3b by 2022. EPS reaches CN¥0.39 in the final year of forecast compared to the current CN¥0.49 EPS today. The main reason for 338’s earnings contraction is cost growth exceeding top-line growth of 0.3% in the next three years. With this high cost growth, margins is expected to contract from 4.9% to 4.8% by the end of 2022.
Next Steps:
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