Broker Revenue Forecasts For Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALPN) Are Surging Higher

Alpine Immune Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALPN) shareholders will have a reason to smile today, with the analysts making substantial upgrades to this year's statutory forecasts. The revenue forecast for this year has experienced a facelift, with the analysts now much more optimistic on its sales pipeline.

After this upgrade, Alpine Immune Sciences' six analysts are now forecasting revenues of US$42m in 2021. This would be a sizeable 132% improvement in sales compared to the last 12 months. Losses are presumed to reduce, shrinking 14% from last year to US$1.26. However, before this estimates update, the consensus had been expecting revenues of US$29m and US$1.31 per share in losses. So there's been quite a change-up of views after the recent consensus updates, with the analysts making a sizeable increase to their revenue forecasts while also reducing the estimated loss as the business grows towards breakeven.

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Looking at the bigger picture now, one of the ways we can make sense of these forecasts is to see how they measure up against both past performance and industry growth estimates. The analysts are definitely expecting Alpine Immune Sciences' growth to accelerate, with the forecast 4x annualised growth to the end of 2021 ranking favourably alongside historical growth of 108% per annum over the past three years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to grow their revenue at 10.0% per year. Factoring in the forecast acceleration in revenue, it's pretty clear that Alpine Immune Sciences is expected to grow much faster than its industry.

The Bottom Line

The most important thing here is that analysts reduced their loss per share estimates for this year, reflecting increased optimism around Alpine Immune Sciences' prospects. Fortunately, analysts also upgraded their revenue estimates, and our data indicates sales are expected to perform better than the wider market. Seeing the dramatic upgrade to this year's forecasts, it might be time to take another look at Alpine Immune Sciences.

With that said, the long-term trajectory of the company's earnings is a lot more important than next year. At Simply Wall St, we have a full range of analyst estimates for Alpine Immune Sciences going out to 2023, and you can see them free on our platform here..

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