Shipping and mailing solutions provider Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Pitney Bowes missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $459.7 million, down 8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ revenue estimates and EPS in line with analysts’ estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Pitney Bowes’s revenue to decline 6.5% year on year to $482.5 million, a further deceleration from the 2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.38 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. Pitney Bowes has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at Pitney Bowes’s peers in the industrial & environmental services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tetra Tech’s revenues decreased 13.4% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.4%, and UniFirst reported revenues up 2.7%, topping estimates by 1%. Tetra Tech traded up 3% following the results while UniFirst’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Tetra Tech’s results here and UniFirst’s results here.
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