Insurance provider CNA Financial (NYSE:CNA) will be announcing earnings results this Monday morning. Here’s what to look for.
CNA Financial beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.82 billion, up 5.4% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a narrow beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting CNA Financial’s revenue to grow 2.6% year on year to $3.82 billion, slowing from the 6.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.34 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. CNA Financial has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at CNA Financial’s peers in the property & casualty insurance segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Stewart Information Services delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 19.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.5%, and Allstate reported revenues up 3.4%, topping estimates by 3.5%. Stewart Information Services traded up 2.9% following the results while Allstate was also up 3.9%.
Read our full analysis of Stewart Information Services’s results here and Allstate’s results here.
Investors in the property & casualty insurance segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. CNA Financial is up 7.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $44 (compared to the current share price of $49.87).
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