Explore LANXESS's Fair Values from the Community and select yours
LANXESS Aktiengesellschaft (ETR:LXS) just released its latest interim report and things are not looking great. It was a pretty negative result overall, with revenues of €3.1b missing analyst predictions by 3.4%. Worse, the business reported a statutory loss of €1.18 per share, much larger than the analysts had forecast prior to the result. This is an important time for investors, as they can track a company's performance in its report, look at what experts are forecasting for next year, and see if there has been any change to expectations for the business. We thought readers would find it interesting to see the analysts latest (statutory) post-earnings forecasts for next year.
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Taking into account the latest results, the current consensus, from the 14 analysts covering LANXESS, is for revenues of €6.01b in 2025. This implies a noticeable 2.3% reduction in LANXESS' revenue over the past 12 months. Per-share losses are predicted to creep up to €2.01. Yet prior to the latest earnings, the analysts had been forecasting revenues of €6.17b and losses of €1.21 per share in 2025. So it's pretty clear the analysts have mixed opinions on LANXESS after this update; revenues were downgraded and per-share losses expected to increase.
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There was no major change to the consensus price target of €27.61, signalling that the business is performing roughly in line with expectations, despite lower earnings per share forecasts. There's another way to think about price targets though, and that's to look at the range of price targets put forward by analysts, because a wide range of estimates could suggest a diverse view on possible outcomes for the business. There are some variant perceptions on LANXESS, with the most bullish analyst valuing it at €38.00 and the most bearish at €20.00 per share. This is a fairly broad spread of estimates, suggesting that analysts are forecasting a wide range of possible outcomes for the business.
One way to get more context on these forecasts is to look at how they compare to both past performance, and how other companies in the same industry are performing. These estimates imply that revenue is expected to slow, with a forecast annualised decline of 4.5% by the end of 2025. This indicates a significant reduction from annual growth of 1.2% over the last five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in the same industry are forecast to see their revenue grow 3.2% annually for the foreseeable future. So although its revenues are forecast to shrink, this cloud does not come with a silver lining - LANXESS is expected to lag the wider industry.