Aerospace and defense technology solutions provider Astronics Corporation (NASDAQ: ATRO) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Astronics missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $204.7 million, up 3.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Astronics’s revenue to grow 4.1% year on year to $212.1 million, slowing from the 25% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.42 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. Astronics has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once since going public and has exceeded top-line expectations by 2.8% on average.
Looking at Astronics’s peers in the aerospace segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AAR delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.4%, and Howmet reported revenues up 13.8%, topping estimates by 2.3%. AAR traded up 4.2% following the results while Howmet was also up 1.1%.
Read our full analysis of AAR’s results here and Howmet’s results here.
Investors in the aerospace segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Astronics is up 1.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $54.33 (compared to the current share price of $49.18).
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