Godrej Consumer Products Ltd.'s earnings per share may fall the most in at least 13 years in the fiscal ending March 2020.
The measure of profitability of India's fourth largest consumer goods maker is expected to decline close to 28 percent year-on-year—the biggest drop since at least 2006-07—in FY20, according to data compiled by BloombergQuint.
Not only that, but Godrej Consumer Products may also be the only fast-moving consumer goods company to report a decline in EPS among peers.
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Consumption slowdown, slower recovery in household insecticides segment, high base in the soaps business and challenges in overseas markets may lead to a fall in Godrej Consumer's EPS in 2019-20, multiple brokerages, including Motilal Oswal, Dolat Capital Pvt. Ltd. and JPMorgan, said in their research reports.
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