PPHE Hotel Group Limited (LON:PPH): Set To Experience A Decrease In Earnings?

Since PPHE Hotel Group Limited (LON:PPH) released its earnings in June 2018, the consensus outlook from analysts appear bearish, as a -8.9% fall in profits is expected in the upcoming year against the past 5-year average growth rate of 5.5%. With trailing-twelve-month net income at current levels of UK£24m, the consensus growth rate suggests that earnings will decline to UK£22m by 2019. Below is a brief commentary around PPHE Hotel Group's earnings outlook going forward, which may give you a sense of market sentiment for the company. For those interested in more of an analysis of the company, you can research its fundamentals here.

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How is PPHE Hotel Group going to perform in the near future?

Over the next three years, it seems the consensus view of the 4 analysts covering PPH is skewed towards the positive sentiment. Broker analysts tend to forecast up to three years ahead due to a lack of clarity around the business trajectory beyond this. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for PPH, 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.

This results in an annual growth rate of 0.4% based on the most recent earnings level of UK£24m to the final forecast of UK£23m by 2021. EPS reaches £0.84 in the final year of forecast compared to the current £0.57 EPS today. As revenues is expected to outpace earnings, analysts expect margins to contract from the current 7.5% to 6.6% by the end of 2021.

Next Steps:

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