Online home goods retailer Overstock (NASDAQ: OSTK) will be reporting results tomorrow morning. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter Overstock reported revenues of $612.6 million, down 10.4% year on year, missing analyst expectations by 4.86%. Despite the company trading up on the results, it was a weak quarter for the company, with declining number of users and a slow revenue growth. The company reported 8.1 million active buyers, down 11.9% year on year.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Overstock's revenue to decline 13.1% year on year to $573.2 million, a significant deceleration compared to the 94.3% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.23 per share.
The analysts covering the company have been growing increasingly bearish about the business heading into the earnings, with revenue estimates seeing two downward revisions over the last thirty days. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 6.84%.
Looking at Overstock's peers in the consumer internet segment, only Snap has so far reported results, delivering top-line growth of 38% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.58%. The stock traded up 8.2% on the results. Read our full analysis of Snap's earnings results here.
The technology sell-off has been putting pressure on stocks since November and consumer internet stocks have been swept alongside with it, with share price down on average 16.1% over the last month. Overstock is down 33.3% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $103.4, compared to share price of $31.79.
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