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Shareholders might have noticed that International Seaways, Inc. (NYSE:INSW) filed its full-year result this time last week. The early response was not positive, with shares down 9.3% to US$33.33 in the past week. International Seaways reported in line with analyst predictions, delivering revenues of US$952m and statutory earnings per share of US$8.38, suggesting the business is executing well and in line with its plan. 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. So we collected the latest post-earnings statutory consensus estimates to see what could be in store for next year.
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Taking into account the latest results, the current consensus, from the eight analysts covering International Seaways, is for revenues of US$781.3m in 2025. This implies a not inconsiderable 18% reduction in International Seaways' revenue over the past 12 months. Statutory earnings per share are forecast to crater 51% to US$4.17 in the same period. In the lead-up to this report, the analysts had been modelling revenues of US$904.4m and earnings per share (EPS) of US$5.12 in 2025. It looks like sentiment has declined substantially in the aftermath of these results, with a real cut to revenue estimates and a real cut to earnings per share numbers as well.
The analysts made no major changes to their price target of US$58.63, suggesting the downgrades are not expected to have a long-term impact on International Seaways' valuation. The consensus price target is just an average of individual analyst targets, so - it could be handy to see how wide the range of underlying estimates is. Currently, the most bullish analyst values International Seaways at US$82.00 per share, while the most bearish prices it at US$38.00. 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.
Of course, another way to look at these forecasts is to place them into context against the industry itself. We would highlight that revenue is expected to reverse, with a forecast 18% annualised decline to the end of 2025. That is a notable change from historical growth of 28% 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 4.1% annually for the foreseeable future. So although its revenues are forecast to shrink, this cloud does not come with a silver lining - International Seaways is expected to lag the wider industry.