Kering SA Beat Analyst Estimates: See What The Consensus Is Forecasting For This Year

Kering SA (EPA:KER) just released its latest interim results and things are looking bullish. Kering beat earnings, with revenues hitting €8.0b, ahead of expectations, and statutory earnings per share outperforming analyst reckonings by a solid 14%. Earnings are an important time for investors, as they can track a company's performance, look at what the analysts are forecasting for next year, and see if there's been a change in sentiment towards the company. So we gathered the latest post-earnings forecasts to see what estimates suggest is in store for next year.

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Taking into account the latest results, the current consensus from Kering's 24 analysts is for revenues of €16.7b in 2021, which would reflect a satisfactory 5.7% increase on its sales over the past 12 months. Statutory earnings per share are forecast to reduce 7.9% to €24.61 in the same period. In the lead-up to this report, the analysts had been modelling revenues of €16.4b and earnings per share (EPS) of €24.00 in 2021. So the consensus seems to have become somewhat more optimistic on Kering's earnings potential following these results.

The consensus price target was unchanged at €796, implying that the improved earnings outlook is not expected to have a long term impact on value creation for shareholders. There's another way to think about price targets though, and that's to look at the range of price targets put forward by analysts, because a wide range of estimates could suggest a diverse view on possible outcomes for the business. There are some variant perceptions on Kering, with the most bullish analyst valuing it at €950 and the most bearish at €455 per share. Note the wide gap in analyst price targets? This implies to us that there is a fairly broad range of possible scenarios for the underlying business.

Of course, another way to look at these forecasts is to place them into context against the industry itself. The analysts are definitely expecting Kering's growth to accelerate, with the forecast 12% annualised growth to the end of 2021 ranking favourably alongside historical growth of 5.6% per annum over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to grow their revenue at 8.7% per year. Factoring in the forecast acceleration in revenue, it's pretty clear that Kering is expected to grow much faster than its industry.

The Bottom Line

The most important thing here is that the analysts upgraded their earnings per share estimates, suggesting that there has been a clear increase in optimism towards Kering following these results. Fortunately, they also reconfirmed their revenue numbers, suggesting sales are tracking in line with expectations - and our data suggests that revenues are expected to grow faster than the wider industry. There was no real change to the consensus price target, suggesting that the intrinsic value of the business has not undergone any major changes with the latest estimates.

With that said, the long-term trajectory of the company's earnings is a lot more important than next year. We have estimates - from multiple Kering analysts - going out to 2023, and you can see them free on our platform here.

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