For the current quarter, the 4.00 analysts offering adjusted EPS forecast have a consensus estimate of $-0.15 a share, which would compare with $-0.53 in the same quarter last year. They have a high estimate of $0.17 and a low estimate of $-0.81. Revenue for the period is expected to total nearly $4.58B from $4.57B the year-ago period.
For the full year, 10.00 Wall Street analysts forecast this company would deliver earnings of -0.05 per share, with a high estimate of $0.80 and a low estimate of $-1.07. It had reported earnings per share of $-0.19 in the corresponding quarter of the previous year. Revenue for the period is expected to total nearly $18.85B versus 18.28B in the preceding year.
The analysts project the company to maintain annual growth of around -0.33% percent over the next five years as compared to an average growth rate of 15.16% percent expected for its competitors in the same industry.
Among the 16 analysts Data provided by Thomson/First Call tracks, the 12-month average price target for LBTYA is $51.26 but some analysts are projecting the price to go as high as $60.00. If the optimistic analysts are correct, that represents a 57 percent upside potential from the recent closing price of $38.16. Some sell-side analysts, particularly the bearish ones, have called for $32.50 price targets on shares of Liberty Global plc – Class A Ordinary Shares (NASDAQ:LBTYA) .
In the last reported results, the company reported earnings of $-0.53 per share, while analysts were calling for share earnings of $0.16. It was an earnings surprise of -431.20%percent. In the matter of earnings surprises, the term Cockroach Effect is often implied. Cockroach Effect is a market theory that suggests that when a company reveals bad news to the public, there may be many more related negative events that have yet to be revealed. In the case of earnings surprises, if a company is suggesting a negative earnings surprise it means there are more to come.
Liberty Global plc, together with its subsidiaries, provides video, broadband Internet, fixed-line telephony, and mobile services in Europe, Chile, and Puerto Rico. It offers various residential services, including video services comprising basic and premium programming, electronic programming guide, high definition (HD) channel, digital video recorder (DVR), and HD DVR services; and video-on-demand, set-top box, pay-per-view programming, and 3D programming services, as well as television applications that allow access to programming on laptops, smartphones, and tablets. The company provides entertainment, sports, movies, documentaries, lifestyles, news, adult, children, and ethnic and foreign channels. It also offers broadband Internet services, such as email, address book, and parental controls; security; and online storage solutions and Web spaces. In addition, the company provides telephony services consisting of multi-featured and circuit-switched fixed-line telephony services; and mobile services comprising voice, short message service, and Internet access. Further, it offers voice, broadband Internet, data, video, wireless, and cloud services to small or home offices, small businesses, and medium and large enterprises, as well as on a wholesale basis to other operators. The company distributes its broadband services through cable distribution systems; and video services through direct-to-home satellite and multichannel multipoint distribution systems. Liberty Global plc was founded in 2004 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
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