Based on China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings Co. Limited's (HKG:570) earnings update in December 2018, analyst forecasts seem fairly subdued, as a 19% rise in profits is expected in the upcoming year, against the higher past 5-year average growth rate of 33%. Presently, with latest-twelve-month earnings at CN¥1.4b, we should see this growing to CN¥1.7b by 2020. Below is a brief commentary on the longer term outlook the market has for China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings. Investors wanting to learn more about other aspects of the company should research its fundamentals here.

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How is China Traditional Chinese Medicine Holdings going to perform in the near future?

The longer term expectations from the 15 analysts of 570 is tilted towards the positive sentiment. Since forecasting becomes more difficult further into the future, broker analysts generally project out to around three years. To reduce the year-on-year volatility of analyst earnings forecast, I've inserted a line of best fit through the expected earnings figures to determine the annual growth rate from the slope of the line.

By 2022, 570's earnings should reach CN¥2.5b, from current levels of CN¥1.4b, resulting in an annual growth rate of 16%. This leads to an EPS of CN¥0.50 in the final year of projections relative to the current EPS of CN¥0.30. As revenues is expected to outpace earnings, analysts expect margins to contract from the current 13% to 13% by the end of 2022.

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