The StockCentral data feed does not currently include analysts' EPS estimates. We're mostly conflicted about the value of those long-term estimates -- it seems that investors attach too much weight to the figures when they're imported into the software directly, leading them to give credence to numbers that may not be any more accurate than the user's own projections. You can enter analysts' long-term growth rate in the data entry screen if you wish.

Toolkit 6 does include a new feature that will let you plot EPS estimates for any of the next 1-5 years on the graph that might guide your projections. You have to enter these figures by hand, but it might give you a better picture of the company's future.

Many pundits caution against comparing the Toolkit method of projecting earnings to the Value Line method. They're not directly compatible, and actually project different periods using different starting and end points, so you could unintentionally end up in a different ballpark unless you know what you're comparing.

Doug

This is a new feature for Toolkit 6 -- it is not in Toolkit 5.

In the Visual Analysis window, Toolkit 6 has a button called EPS Estimates at the top. Click it and you can enter the future FY EPS Estimates based on whatever source you would like to use (Value Line, Zacks, etc.). After you enter those figures, they display on the stock study graph, like this:

These can help you in making your EPS projections.

Doug