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Celebrations may be in order for Bushveld Minerals Limited (LON:BMN) shareholders, with the analysts delivering a significant upgrade to their statutory estimates for the company. The consensus estimated revenue numbers rose, with their view now clearly much more bullish on the company's business prospects.

After the upgrade, the three analysts covering Bushveld Minerals are now predicting revenues of US$144m in 2020. If met, this would reflect a sizeable 24% improvement in sales compared to the last 12 months. Before the latest update, the analysts were foreseeing US$129m of revenue in 2020. It looks like there's been a clear increase in optimism around Bushveld Minerals, given the substantial gain in revenue forecasts.

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Another way we can view these estimates is in the context of the bigger picture, such as how the forecasts stack up against past performance, and whether forecasts are more or less bullish relative to other companies in the industry. One thing stands out from these estimates, which is that Bushveld Minerals is forecast to grow faster in the future than it has in the past, with revenues expected to grow 24%. If achieved, this would be a much better result than the 39% annual decline over the past year. Compare this against analyst estimates for the wider industry, which suggest that (in aggregate) industry revenues are expected to grow 1.8% next year. Not only are Bushveld Minerals' revenues expected to improve, it seems that the analysts are also expecting it to grow faster than the wider industry.

The Bottom Line

The most important thing to take away from this upgrade is that analysts lifted their revenue estimates for this year. Analysts also expect revenues to grow faster than the wider market. Given that analysts appear to be expecting substantial improvement in the sales pipeline, now could be the right time to take another look at Bushveld Minerals.

Analysts are clearly in love with Bushveld Minerals at the moment, but before diving in - you should be aware that we've identified some warning flags with the business, such as concerns around earnings quality. For more information, you can click through to our platform to learn more about this and the 2 other warning signs we've identified .

Of course, seeing company management invest large sums of money in a stock can be just as useful as knowing whether analysts are upgrading their estimates. So you may also wish to search this free list of stocks that insiders are buying.

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