Cruise ship company Carnival (NYSE:CCL) will be reporting earnings tomorrow before the bell. Here’s what to expect.
Carnival beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $7.90 billion, up 15.2% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates but EBITDA guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations. It reported 28.1 million passenger cruise days, up 8.9% year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Carnival’s revenue to grow 10% year on year to $5.93 billion, slowing from the 40.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.07 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Carnival has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.3% on average.
With Carnival being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for consumer discretionary stocks. However, investors in the segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Carnival is down 1.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $27.97 (compared to the current share price of $24.72).
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