Westlife Foodworld Limited Just Missed Earnings – But Analysts Have Updated Their Models

Westlife Foodworld Limited (NSE:WESTLIFE) missed earnings with its latest first-quarter results, disappointing overly-optimistic forecasters.

Results showed a clear earnings miss, with ₹6.2b revenue coming in 2.1% lower than what the analystsexpected. Statutory earnings per share (EPS) of ₹0.21 missed the mark badly, arriving some 43% below what was expected.

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.

We’ve gathered the most recent statutory forecasts to see whether the analysts have changed their earnings models, following these results.

Taking into account the latest results, the consensus forecast from Westlife Foodworld’s 19 analysts is for revenues of ₹26.4b in 2025. This reflects a notable 11% improvement in revenue compared to the last 12 months. Statutory earnings per share are predicted to leap 43% to ₹3.99. In the lead-up to this report, the analysts had been modelling revenues of ₹27.1b and earnings per share (EPS) of ₹5.45 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 analysts made no major changes to their price target of ₹847, suggesting the downgrades are not expected to have a long-term impact on Westlife Foodworld’s 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. There are some variant perceptions on Westlife Foodworld, with the most bullish analyst valuing it at ₹991 and the most bearish at ₹698 per share. Analysts definitely have varying views on the business, but the spread of estimates is not wide enough in our view to suggest that extreme outcomes could await Westlife Foodworld shareholders.