Aviation and defense services provider AAR CORP (NYSE: AIR) will be reporting results this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.

AAR beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $795.3 million, up 15.9% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting AAR’s revenue to grow 19.6% year on year, in line with the 19.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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. AAR has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

With AAR being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for aerospace and defense stocks. However, the segment has faced declining investor sentiment as AAR’s peer group is down 11.4% on average over the last month. AAR is down 11.6% during the same time .

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