Will Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated's (NYSE:PEG) Earnings Grow In The Next 12 Months?

After Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated's (NYSE:PEG) earnings announcement in December 2018, it seems that analyst forecasts are fairly optimistic, with earnings expected to grow by 15% in the upcoming year against the past 5-year average growth rate of 2.3%. Currently with trailing-twelve-month earnings of US$1.4b, we can expect this to reach US$1.7b by 2020. Below is a brief commentary on the longer term outlook the market has for Public Service Enterprise Group. Readers that are interested in understanding the company beyond these figures should research its fundamentals here.

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How will Public Service Enterprise Group perform in the near future?

The longer term expectations from the 10 analysts of PEG 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 PEG, 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 7.7% based on the most recent earnings level of US$1.4b to the final forecast of US$1.9b by 2022. This leads to an EPS of $3.68 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of $2.85. Margins are currently sitting at 15%, which is expected to expand to 17% by 2022.

Next Steps:

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