Chip manufacturer NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) will be announcing earnings results this Monday afternoon. Here’s what to look for.
NXP Semiconductors beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.93 billion, down 6.4% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with revenue guidance for next quarter topping analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting NXP Semiconductors’s revenue to decline 2.7% year on year to $3.16 billion, improving from the 5.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.12 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. NXP Semiconductors has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 0.4% on average.
Looking at NXP Semiconductors’s peers in the semiconductors segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Texas Instruments delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 14.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.9%, and Lam Research reported revenues up 27.7%, topping estimates by 1.6%. Texas Instruments traded down 5.7% following the results while Lam Research was up 4.3%.
Read our full analysis of Texas Instruments’s results here and Lam Research’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the semiconductors segment, with share prices up 7.5% on average over the last month. NXP Semiconductors is down 2.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $258.43 (compared to the current share price of $219.70).
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