What Are Analysts Saying About AerCap Holdings N.V.’s (NYSE:AER) Earnings Trend?
AerCap Holdings N.V.’s (NYSE:AER) latest earnings update in December 2018 revealed that the company endured a minor headwind with earnings declining from US$1.1b to US$1.0b, a change of -5.6%. Today I want to provide a brief commentary on how market analysts perceive AerCap Holdings’s earnings growth trajectory over the next couple of years and whether the future looks brighter. I will be using net income excluding extraordinary items in order to exclude one-off volatility which I am not interested in.
Market analysts’ prospects for the upcoming year seems pessimistic, with earnings reducing by -7.5%. Over the medium term, earnings should continue to be below today’s level, with a reduction of -2.5% in 2021, eventually reaching US$990m in 2022.
Even though it is informative understanding the rate of growth each year relative to today’s figure, it may be more valuable to gauge the rate at which the earnings are moving every year, on average. The pro of this technique is that we can get a better picture of the direction of AerCap Holdings’s earnings trajectory over the long run, irrespective of near term fluctuations, which may be more relevant for long term investors. To calculate this rate, I’ve appended a line of best fit through the forecasted earnings by market analysts. The slope of this line is the rate of earnings growth, which in this case is 0.8%. This means, we can assume AerCap Holdings will grow its earnings by 0.8% every year for the next few years.
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