What Do Analysts Think About Genus Power Infrastructures Limited's (NSE:GENUSPOWER) Future?

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After Genus Power Infrastructures Limited's (NSE:GENUSPOWER) recent earnings announcement in March 2018, analyst consensus outlook appear pessimistic, with earnings expected to decline by -9.0% in the upcoming year relative to the past 5-year average growth rate of 13%. Presently, with latest-twelve-month earnings at ₹845m, we should see this fall to ₹769m by 2020. Below is a brief commentary on the longer term outlook the market has for Genus Power Infrastructures. Investors wanting to learn more about other aspects of the company should research its fundamentals here.

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What can we expect from Genus Power Infrastructures in the longer term?

The longer term expectations from the 2 analysts of GENUSPOWER is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Given that it becomes hard to forecast far into the future, broker analysts tend to project ahead roughly three years. To get an idea of the overall earnings growth trend for GENUSPOWER, 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 1.4% based on the most recent earnings level of ₹845m to the final forecast of ₹942m by 2022. This leads to an EPS of ₹3.7 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of ₹3.68. As revenues is expected to outpace earnings, analysts expect margins to contract from the current 10% to 6.3% by the end of 2022.

Next Steps:

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