Auto and industrial parts retailer Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
Genuine Parts beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $6.26 billion, up 4.9% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates but full-year EPS guidance slightly missing analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Genuine Parts’s revenue to grow 5% year on year to $6.06 billion, improving from the 3.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.82 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. Genuine Parts has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Genuine Parts’s peers in the auto parts retailer segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Advance Auto Parts’s revenues decreased 1.2% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 1%, and Monro reported a revenue decline of 4%, falling short of estimates by 0.6%. Monro traded down 5.2% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Advance Auto Parts’s results here and Monro’s results here.
Investors in the auto parts retailer segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Genuine Parts is up 13.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $152.78 (compared to the current share price of $149.82).
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