Eps Growth

Companies are now facing the perfect storm, with falling operating profits, increasing working capital and lack of easy financing options.

Bespoke: Bespoke’s Commodity Snapshot Zacks: Seismic Shift in Earnings . . . there is a serious dichotomy between growth as measured by the median EPS growth rate and as measured by the total net income growth. The median EPS growth rate is fairly healthy, while the total net income…

I'd mentioned BHEL around April 2 last year, when they announced fairly good results. Today they announced their provisional results. The EPS growth is only about 20%, from 49.3 to 57.5. Their order inflow was 35,000 cr. and is now at 50,000 cr. The book must be quite a bit more, around…

As we start a new quarter, and a new financial year, let's go back a little bit and look at the previous two years. The Nifty EPS, calculated from……of 3211, the Nifty P/E is 15 - for what has been an astoundingly low EPS growth in the last 1.5 years. The Nifty EPS touched a high of 240…

On Feb 11, I'd written that Nifty's yearly EPS growth was only 13%. The story gets worse. As of May 16, EPS growth has been just 11%, from 211.72 last year same time to 235.08. And the current P/E: 22. But this time there are 15 companies that haven't announced results yet, some of them being…

Apple Inc. (nasd:AAPL) is scheduled to release earnings for Q2 2008 Wednesday, April 23rd. Below is some brief information on the historical trend……rose a penny.I believe the consensus is a bit low, calling for 22% Yr/Yr EPS growth. I predict Mac sales are up more than 50% to over 2…

McCormick & Co.Stock Price: $34.6452-Wk High: $39.7352-Wk Low: $32.66Market Cap: $4.4 billionEst. FY'08 EPS*: $2.11 per shareFY'08 P/E: 16.4xEst. Long-Term EPS Growth**: 9%Est. (FY'08/FY'07) EPS Growth: 10%Revenue (FY'07): $2.92 billionDividend Yield: 2.5%CEO: Alan D. WilsonHeadquarters: Sparks,…

Sir Crispin Davis noted that the sale of Harcourt was made on 'favorable terms' and it looks like the company will net over $2.0billion from this……and good business momentum across all its businesses which will drive the EPS growth. Additionally, they have a renewed initiative on cost…

Obama's speech yesterday was inspiring, admitting the challenges ahead and asking for a greater responsibility of America. It's time the world owns……can push an Axis bank down 16% after announcing fantastic results (50% EPS growth), it makes you sit back and wonder. It's a bad bad market…

Suntech (NYSE: STP) has been a fun ride over the last year since it came public and there's still likely a lot more to come. For those that are……was pricey at the IPO - I think if you assumed moderate sequential EPS growth for Q4 of 2005 it was pricing at 60x 2005 EPS. If you assume…

ICICI Bank's Q4 results are out. Net profit is 744 cr. versus 1150 cr., a 35% drop, and EPS dropped from 10.27 to 6.68. The consolidated Annual……which one might think is fairly high for a company whose consolidated EPS growth is less than 2% over the last two years (for 2006-07 it was…

Naukri (Info Edge) results show an EPS growth of 31% from 4.8 to 6.3. Profits are up to 17.21 cr. from 13.09 cr, but most of it seems to come from other income which is at 11.25 cr. versus 5.3 cr. Operating income is flat. Stock up nearly 10% at 449. Reliance Power announces 106 cr. in profit,…

In honor of my first trip to New Orleans, I thought I'd post up a few stocks from the area.Entergy (NYSE: ETR) - Electric utility company based in……has outpaced the S&P over the last year. If you can buy the long term EPS growth estimates of 36%, then the stock's 17x trailing EPS…

Bank of Baroda reported 1Q09 profits up 12% YoY ahead of estimates. Key highlights are - Flat margins QoQ, strong fee income growth and no……and mid-market focused. Andhra Bank is expected to report flat EPS growth of Rs 11 to Rs 12 for FY09.

Punjab National Bank (PNB) has reported a net profit of Rs5.1bn. NII at Rs14.4bn, up 11% yoy and operating profit at Rs9.8bn, up 5.3% yoy, were……further environmental deterioration.Analysts expect PNB to report flat EPS growth for FY09 at Rs 65.18.HDFC Bank - HDBK’s profit and…