It's been a good week for German American Bancorp, Inc. (NASDAQ:GABC) shareholders, because the company has just released its latest quarterly results, and the shares gained 2.5% to US$37.91. Revenue of US$83m surpassed estimates by 4.0%, although statutory earnings per share missed badly, coming in 38% below expectations at US$0.30 per share. This is an important time for investors, as they can track a company's performance in its report, look at what experts are forecasting for next year, and see if there has been any change to expectations for the business. So we gathered the latest post-earnings forecasts to see what estimates suggest is in store for next year.

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After the latest results, the six analysts covering German American Bancorp are now predicting revenues of US$359.2m in 2025. If met, this would reflect a major 40% improvement in revenue compared to the last 12 months. Per-share earnings are expected to shoot up 36% to US$2.73. Yet prior to the latest earnings, the analysts had been anticipated revenues of US$350.7m and earnings per share (EPS) of US$2.98 in 2025. Overall it looks as though the analysts were a bit mixed on the latest results. Although there was a a major to revenue, the consensus also made a small dip in its earnings per share forecasts.

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There's been no major changes to the price target of US$45.67, suggesting that the impact of higher forecast revenue and lower earnings won't result in a meaningful change to the business' valuation. It could also be instructive to look at the range of analyst estimates, to evaluate how different the outlier opinions are from the mean. The most optimistic German American Bancorp analyst has a price target of US$47.00 per share, while the most pessimistic values it at US$44.00. Even so, with a relatively close grouping of estimates, it looks like the analysts are quite confident in their valuations, suggesting German American Bancorp 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. The analysts are definitely expecting German American Bancorp's growth to accelerate, with the forecast 57% annualised growth to the end of 2025 ranking favourably alongside historical growth of 6.4% per annum over the past five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in a similar industry are forecast to grow their revenue at 7.1% per year. Factoring in the forecast acceleration in revenue, it's pretty clear that German American Bancorp is expected to grow much faster than its industry.

The Bottom Line

The most important thing to take away is that the analysts downgraded their earnings per share estimates, showing that there has been a clear decline in sentiment following these results. Happily, they also upgraded their revenue estimates, and are forecasting them to grow faster than the wider industry. The consensus price target held steady at US$45.67, with the latest estimates not enough to have an impact on their price targets.

Keeping that in mind, we still think that the longer term trajectory of the business is much more important for investors to consider. At Simply Wall St, we have a full range of analyst estimates for German American Bancorp going out to 2026, and you can see them free on our platform here..

We don't want to rain on the parade too much, but we did also find 1 warning sign for German American Bancorp that you need to be mindful of.

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