Industrial products distributor Applied Industrial (NYSE:AIT) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Applied Industrial beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.2 billion, up 9.2% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a decent beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Applied Industrial’s revenue to grow 9.2% year on year to $1.17 billion, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.50 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. Applied Industrial has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Applied Industrial’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Worthington delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 19.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.4%, and GE Aerospace reported revenues up 17.6%, topping estimates by 13.9%. Worthington traded down 2.5% following the results while GE Aerospace was also down 7.7%.
Read our full analysis of Worthington’s results here and GE Aerospace’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the industrial machinery segment, with share prices up 9.2% on average over the last month. Applied Industrial is up 6.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $305.83 (compared to the current share price of $280.14).
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