China Jushi Co., Ltd. (SHSE:600176) came out with its quarterly results last week, and we wanted to see how the business is performing and what industry forecasters think of the company following this report. Although revenues of CN¥3.4b were in line with analyst expectations, China Jushi surprised on the earnings front, with an unexpected (statutory) profit of CN¥0.087 per share a nice improvement on the losses that the analystsforecast. 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. Readers will be glad to know we've aggregated the latest statutory forecasts to see whether the analysts have changed their mind on China Jushi after the latest results.

After the latest results, the 17 analysts covering China Jushi are now predicting revenues of CN¥17.3b in 2024. If met, this would reflect a meaningful 18% improvement in revenue compared to the last 12 months. Statutory earnings per share are predicted to ascend 19% to CN¥0.73. In the lead-up to this report, the analysts had been modelling revenues of CN¥16.4b and earnings per share (EPS) of CN¥0.64 in 2024. There's been a pretty noticeable increase in sentiment, with the analysts upgrading revenues and making a substantial gain in earnings per share in particular.

Despite these upgrades,the analysts have not made any major changes to their price target of CN¥11.47, suggesting that the higher estimates are not likely to have a long term impact on what the stock is worth. That's not the only conclusion we can draw from this data however, as some investors also like to consider the spread in estimates when evaluating analyst price targets. The most optimistic China Jushi analyst has a price target of CN¥13.30 per share, while the most pessimistic values it at CN¥8.35. These price targets show that analysts do have some differing views on the business, but the estimates do not vary enough to suggest to us that some are betting on wild success or utter failure.

Of course, another way to look at these forecasts is to place them into context against the industry itself. It's clear from the latest estimates that China Jushi's rate of growth is expected to accelerate meaningfully, with the forecast 25% annualised revenue growth to the end of 2024 noticeably faster than its historical growth of 13% p.a. over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to grow their revenue at 8.3% per year. Factoring in the forecast acceleration in revenue, it's pretty clear that China Jushi is expected to grow much faster than its industry.

The Bottom Line

The most important thing here is that the analysts upgraded their earnings per share estimates, suggesting that there has been a clear increase in optimism towards China Jushi following these results. Happily, they also upgraded their revenue estimates, and are forecasting them to grow faster than the wider industry. The consensus price target held steady at CN¥11.47, with the latest estimates not enough to have an impact on their price targets.

Keeping that in mind, we still think that the longer term trajectory of the business is much more important for investors to consider. At Simply Wall St, we have a full range of analyst estimates for China Jushi going out to 2026, and you can see them free on our platform here..

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