Conveyorized car wash service company Mister Car Wash (NYSE: MCW) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.

Mister Car Wash missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $265.4 million, up 4.1% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Mister Car Wash’s revenue to grow 4.7% year on year to $261.1 million, slowing from the 6.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.10 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. Mister Car Wash has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.

Looking at Mister Car Wash’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Pool delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.3%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Nike reported revenues up 1.1%, topping estimates by 6.5%. Pool traded down 1.5% following the results while Nike was up 6.5%.

Read our full analysis of Pool’s results here and Nike’s results here.

Investors in the consumer discretionary segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.2% on average over the last month. Mister Car Wash is down 4.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $7.98 (compared to the current share price of $5.12).

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