Logistics solutions provider Hub Group (NASDAQ: HUBG) is expected to be reporting results next Friday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.

Hub Group beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $934.5 million, down 5.3% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Hub Group’s revenue to decline 5.4% year on year, a further deceleration from the 1.2% decrease 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.

With Hub Group 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 transportation and logistics stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 3.5% on average over the last month. Hub Group is up 9.4% during the same time .

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