IPH Past Earnings Performance

Past criteria checks 2/6

IPH has been growing earnings at an average annual rate of 2.4%, while the Professional Services industry saw earnings growing at 3.6% annually. Revenues have been growing at an average rate of 13.6% per year. IPH's return on equity is 9.6%, and it has net margins of 10%.

Key information

2.4%

Earnings growth rate

-0.9%

EPS growth rate

Professional Services Industry Growth	8.7%
Revenue growth rate	13.6%
Return on equity	9.6%
Net Margin	10.0%
Last Earnings Update	30 Jun 2024

Recent past performance updates

We Think That There Are More Issues For IPH (ASX:IPH) Than Just Sluggish Earnings

Aug 31

Recent updates

There's Reason For Concern Over IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Price

Dec 18

We Think That There Are More Issues For IPH (ASX:IPH) Than Just Sluggish Earnings

Aug 31

An Intrinsic Calculation For IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) Suggests It's 32% Undervalued

Feb 01

Most Shareholders Will Probably Find That The CEO Compensation For IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) Is Reasonable

Nov 11

Is There An Opportunity With IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) 28% Undervaluation?

Oct 28

These 4 Measures Indicate That IPH (ASX:IPH) Is Using Debt Reasonably Well

Oct 06

IPH (ASX:IPH) Is Paying Out A Larger Dividend Than Last Year

Aug 23

IPH (ASX:IPH) Seems To Use Debt Quite Sensibly

Jun 29

Estimating The Fair Value Of IPH Limited (ASX:IPH)

Apr 07

Does IPH (ASX:IPH) Have A Healthy Balance Sheet?

Mar 22

Are IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Fundamentals Good Enough to Warrant Buying Given The Stock's Recent Weakness?

Mar 06

Investors Who Bought IPH (ASX:IPH) Shares Three Years Ago Are Now Up 72%

Feb 19

Is IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) At Risk Of Cutting Its Dividend?

Feb 06

How Is IPH's (ASX:IPH) CEO Compensated?

Jan 22

What Kind Of Shareholders Hold The Majority In IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Shares?

Jan 07

Is There An Opportunity With IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) 26% Undervaluation?

Dec 23

IPH (ASX:IPH) Could Easily Take On More Debt

Dec 10

Should Weakness in IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Stock Be Seen As A Sign That Market Will Correct The Share Price Given Decent Financials?

Nov 27

Revenue & Expenses Breakdown

How IPH makes and spends money. Based on latest reported earnings, on an LTM basis.

Earnings and Revenue History

ASX:IPH Revenue, expenses and earnings (AUD Millions)
Date	Revenue	Earnings	G+A Expenses
30 Jun 24	606	61	168
31 Mar 24	569	59	159
31 Dec 23	532	57	148
30 Sep 23	508	61	141
30 Jun 23	483	65	135
31 Mar 23	447	61	126
31 Dec 22	412	57	117
30 Sep 22	393	55	114
30 Jun 22	374	53	110
31 Mar 22	371	52	110
31 Dec 21	367	51	109
30 Sep 21	363	52	110
30 Jun 21	360	54	110
31 Mar 21	364	54	111
31 Dec 20	367	54	112
30 Sep 20	367	55	112
30 Jun 20	366	55	113
31 Mar 20	337	55	107
31 Dec 19	309	56	102
30 Sep 19	281	55	95
30 Jun 19	253	53	88
31 Mar 19	249	49	87
31 Dec 18	245	45	86
30 Sep 18	233	43	82
30 Jun 18	222	41	77
31 Mar 18	207	41	70
31 Dec 17	192	40	63
30 Sep 17	188	42	61
30 Jun 17	183	43	59
31 Mar 17	177	43	57
31 Dec 16	171	43	55
30 Sep 16	163	41	52
30 Jun 16	154	39	48
31 Mar 16	138	37	41
31 Dec 15	122	36	33
30 Sep 15	105	33	26
30 Jun 15	89	30	19
31 Mar 15	84	30	18
31 Dec 14	79	29	16
30 Sep 14	76	30	16
30 Jun 14	73	31	16

Quality Earnings: IPH has high quality earnings.

Growing Profit Margin: IPH's current net profit margins (10%) are lower than last year (13.4%).

Free Cash Flow vs Earnings Analysis

Past Earnings Growth Analysis

Earnings Trend: IPH's earnings have grown by 2.4% per year over the past 5 years.

Accelerating Growth: IPH's has had negative earnings growth over the past year, so it can't be compared to its 5-year average.

Earnings vs Industry: IPH had negative earnings growth (-5.7%) over the past year, making it difficult to compare to the Professional Services industry average (-10.1%).

Return on Equity

High ROE: IPH's Return on Equity (9.6%) is considered low.

Return on Assets

Return on Capital Employed

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2025/01/31 19:58
End of Day Share Price	2025/01/31 00:00
Earnings	2024/06/30
Annual Earnings	2024/06/30

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Analyst Sources

IPH Limited is covered by 14 analysts. 9 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Aryan Norozi	Barrenjoey Markets Pty Limited
Conor O’Prey	Canaccord Genuity
Richard Amland	CLSA

IPH Past Earnings Performance

Past criteria checks 2/6

Key information

Recent past performance updates

We Think That There Are More Issues For IPH (ASX:IPH) Than Just Sluggish Earnings

IPH Limited to Report Fiscal Year 2024 Results on Aug 22, 2024

First half 2024 earnings: EPS misses analyst expectations

IPH Limited to Report First Half, 2024 Results on Feb 22, 2024

Full year 2023 earnings: EPS and revenues exceed analyst expectations

IPH Limited to Report Q4, 2023 Results on Aug 17, 2023

Recent updates

Price target decreased by 7.4% to AU$7.12

There's Reason For Concern Over IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Price

CEO, MD & Director recently sold AU$457k worth of stock

IPH Limited, Annual General Meeting, Nov 14, 2024

Price target decreased by 7.1% to AU$7.83

We Think That There Are More Issues For IPH (ASX:IPH) Than Just Sluggish Earnings

Final dividend of AU$0.19 announced

IPH Limited Limited Declares Ordinary Dividend for the Six Months June 30, 2024, Payable on 20 September 2024

IPH Limited has filed a Follow-on Equity Offering in the amount of AUD 100.000005 million.

IPH Limited to Report Fiscal Year 2024 Results on Aug 22, 2024

Subdued Growth No Barrier To IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Price

IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) entered into non-binding indicative proposal to acquire QANTM Intellectual Property Limited (ASX:QIP) for AUD 250 million.

Price target decreased by 8.7% to AU$8.58

IPH (ASX:IPH) Has A Pretty Healthy Balance Sheet

IPH Limited Announces Executive Changes

CEO, MD & Director recently sold AU$646k worth of stock

Consensus EPS estimates fall by 18%

First half dividend increased to AU$0.16

First half 2024 earnings: EPS misses analyst expectations

IPH Limited to Report First Half, 2024 Results on Feb 22, 2024

CEO, MD & Director recently sold AU$409k worth of stock

IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) entered into an agreement to acquire ROBIC L.L.P. for CAD 110 million.

IPH Limited Approves Election of Director, David Wiadrowski

Should You Be Adding IPH (ASX:IPH) To Your Watchlist Today?

IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) agreed to acquire Ridout & Maybee LLP for CAD 66 million.

IPH Limited announced that it expects to receive AUD 22.380147 million in funding

Full year 2023 earnings: EPS and revenues exceed analyst expectations

IPH Limited to Report Q4, 2023 Results on Aug 17, 2023

Is IPH (ASX:IPH) A Risky Investment?

A Look At The Fair Value Of IPH Limited (ASX:IPH)

First half 2023 earnings released: EPS: AU$0.13 (vs AU$0.11 in 1H 2022)

IPH Limited to Report First Half, 2023 Results on Feb 16, 2023

Non-Executive Chairman recently bought AU$172k worth of stock

Non-Executive Chairman recently bought AU$178k worth of stock

A Look At The Fair Value Of IPH Limited (ASX:IPH)

IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) completed the acquisition of Smart & Biggar Ip Agency Co. from Smart & Biggar.

IPH Limited Appoints Ms. Vicki Carter as Non-Executive Director, Effective 5 October 2022

Independent Non-Executive Director recently bought AU$75k worth of stock

IPH (ASX:IPH) Has Announced That It Will Be Increasing Its Dividend To A$0.16

Price target increased to AU$10.66

Full year 2022 earnings released: EPS: AU$0.24 (vs AU$0.25 in FY 2021)

IPH Limited, Annual General Meeting, Nov 17, 2022

Investor sentiment improved over the past week

Now 21% undervalued

IPH Limited to Report Fiscal Year 2022 Results on Aug 18, 2022

Anaqua, Inc. completed the acquisition of an unknown majority stake in Practice Insight Pty Ltd. from IPH Limited (ASX:IPH).

Now 20% undervalued

Estimating The Intrinsic Value Of IPH Limited (ASX:IPH)

Anaqua, Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire an unknown majority stake in Practice Insight Pty Ltd. from IPH Limited (ASX:IPH).

Now 21% undervalued after recent price drop

IPH Limited Announces Board Changes

IPH (ASX:IPH) Has A Pretty Healthy Balance Sheet

First half 2022 earnings: EPS in line with analyst expectations despite revenue beat

IPH Limited Announces Dividend for A Period of Six Months Ended December 31, 2021, Payable on March 18, 2022

IPH Limited to Report First Half, 2022 Results on Feb 17, 2022

An Intrinsic Calculation For IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) Suggests It's 32% Undervalued

Most Shareholders Will Probably Find That The CEO Compensation For IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) Is Reasonable

Is There An Opportunity With IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) 28% Undervaluation?

These 4 Measures Indicate That IPH (ASX:IPH) Is Using Debt Reasonably Well

IPH (ASX:IPH) Is Paying Out A Larger Dividend Than Last Year

Price target increased to AU$9.21

Full year 2021 earnings released: EPS AU$0.25 (vs AU$0.26 in FY 2020)

IPH Limited (ASX:IPH) agreed to acquire Applied Marks Pty Ltd for $7.1 million.

IPH (ASX:IPH) Seems To Use Debt Quite Sensibly

Estimating The Fair Value Of IPH Limited (ASX:IPH)

Does IPH (ASX:IPH) Have A Healthy Balance Sheet?

Are IPH Limited's (ASX:IPH) Fundamentals Good Enough to Warrant Buying Given The Stock's Recent Weakness?

First half 2021 earnings released: EPS AU$0.12 (vs AU$0.13 in 1H 2020)

Revenue beats expectations, earnings disappoint