As you might know, Dana Incorporated (NYSE:DAN) last week released its latest third-quarter, and things did not turn out so great for shareholders. It wasn’t a great result overall – while revenue fell marginally short of analyst estimates at US$2.5b, statutory earnings missed forecasts by an incredible 84%, coming in at just US$0.03 per share. Following the result, the analysts have updated their earnings model, and it would be good to know whether they think there’s been a strong change in the company’s prospects, or if it’s business as usual. Readers will be glad to know we’ve aggregated the latest statutory forecasts to see whether the analysts have changed their mind on Dana after the latest results.
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Taking into account the latest results, Dana’s seven analysts currently expect revenues in 2025 to be US$10.5b, approximately in line with the last 12 months. Dana is also expected to turn profitable, with statutory earnings of US$0.46 per share. Yet prior to the latest earnings, the analysts had been anticipated revenues of US$10.8b and earnings per share (EPS) of US$0.76 in 2025. From this we can that sentiment has definitely become more bearish after the latest results, leading to lower revenue forecasts and a pretty serious reduction to earnings per share estimates.
The consensus price target fell 15% to US$10.43, with the weaker earnings outlook clearly leading valuation estimates. 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. The most optimistic Dana analyst has a price target of US$16.00 per share, while the most pessimistic values it at US$7.00. Note the wide gap in analyst price targets? This implies to us that there is a fairly broad range of possible scenarios for the underlying business.
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. We would highlight that Dana’s revenue growth is expected to slow, with the forecast 0.3% annualised growth rate until the end of 2025 being well below the historical 7.7% p.a. growth over the last five years. Compare this against other companies (with analyst forecasts) in the industry, which are in aggregate expected to see revenue growth of 9.3% annually. So it’s pretty clear that, while revenue growth is expected to slow down, the wider industry is also expected to grow faster than Dana.
The most important thing to take away is that the analysts downgraded their earnings per share estimates, showing that there has been a clear decline in sentiment following these results. Unfortunately, they also downgraded their revenue estimates, and our data indicates underperformance compared to the wider industry. Even so, earnings per share are more important to the intrinsic value of the business. Furthermore, the analysts also cut their price targets, suggesting that the latest news has led to greater pessimism about the intrinsic value of the business.
With that in mind, we wouldn’t be too quick to come to a conclusion on Dana. Long-term earnings power is much more important than next year’s profits. We have forecasts for Dana going out to 2026, and you can see them free on our platform here.
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