Statutory Earnings May Not Be The Best Way To Understand MakeMyTrip’s (NASDAQ:MMYT) True Position

We didn’t see MakeMyTrip Limited’s (NASDAQ:MMYT) stock surge when it reported robust earnings recently. We decided to have a deeper look, and we believe that investors might be worried about several concerning factors that we found.

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Importantly, our data indicates that MakeMyTrip’s profit received a boost of US$9.2m in unusual items, over the last year. We can’t deny that higher profits generally leave us optimistic, but we’d prefer it if the profit were to be sustainable. When we analysed the vast majority of listed companies worldwide, we found that significant unusual items are often not repeated. And that’s as you’d expect, given these boosts are described as ‘unusual’. Assuming those unusual items don’t show up again in the current year, we’d thus expect profit to be weaker next year (in the absence of business growth, that is).

That might leave you wondering what analysts are forecasting in terms…