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HomeTrust Bancshares, Inc. (NYSE:HTB) just released its first-quarter report and things are looking bullish. HomeTrust Bancshares beat earnings, with revenues hitting US$51m, ahead of expectations, and statutory earnings per share outperforming analyst reckonings by a solid 11%. Earnings are an important time for investors, as they can track a company's performance, look at what the analysts are forecasting for next year, and see if there's been a change in sentiment towards the company. With this in mind, we've gathered the latest statutory forecasts to see what the analysts are expecting for next year.
Following the latest results, HomeTrust Bancshares' three analysts are now forecasting revenues of US$203.1m in 2025. This would be a modest 6.6% improvement in revenue compared to the last 12 months. Statutory per share are forecast to be US$3.12, approximately in line with the last 12 months. In the lead-up to this report, the analysts had been modelling revenues of US$203.3m and earnings per share (EPS) of US$3.12 in 2025. The consensus analysts don't seem to have seen anything in these results that would have changed their view on the business, given there's been no major change to their estimates.
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The analysts reconfirmed their price target of US$42.50, showing that the business is executing well and in line with expectations. 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. There are some variant perceptions on HomeTrust Bancshares, with the most bullish analyst valuing it at US$43.00 and the most bearish at US$41.50 per share. Even so, with a relatively close grouping of estimates, it looks like the analysts are quite confident in their valuations, suggesting HomeTrust Bancshares is an easy business to forecast or the the analysts are all using similar assumptions.
Of course, another way to look at these forecasts is to place them into context against the industry itself. We can infer from the latest estimates that forecasts expect a continuation of HomeTrust Bancshares'historical trends, as the 8.9% annualised revenue growth to the end of 2025 is roughly in line with the 9.0% annual growth over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to see their revenues grow 7.1% per year. So although HomeTrust Bancshares is expected to maintain its revenue growth rate, it's definitely expected to grow faster than the wider industry.