Regional bank Provident Financial Services (NYSE:PFS) will be reporting results this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
Provident Financial Services beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $221.7 million, up 5.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a narrow beat of analysts’ tangible book value per share estimates but EPS in line with analysts’ estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Provident Financial Services’s revenue to grow 8.6% year on year to $223.5 million, slowing from the 79.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.56 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. Provident Financial Services has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Provident Financial Services’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. ServisFirst Bancshares delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5%, and Dime Community Bancshares reported revenues up 24.5%, topping estimates by 5.2%. ServisFirst Bancshares traded up 14.6% following the results while Dime Community Bancshares was also up 12.5%.
Read our full analysis of ServisFirst Bancshares’s results here and Dime Community Bancshares’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the regional banks segment, with share prices up 2.6% on average over the last month. Provident Financial Services is up 1.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $23.13 (compared to the current share price of $20.57).
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