Electronic brokerage firm Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what to look for.

Interactive Brokers beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 5.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.61 billion, up 21.3% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with and a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Interactive Brokers’s revenue to grow 14.1% year on year to $1.63 billion, slowing from the 23.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.59 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. Interactive Brokers has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at Interactive Brokers’s peers in the investment banking & brokerage segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Jefferies delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3%, and Goldman Sachs reported a revenue decline of 3%, topping estimates by 0.5%. Jefferies traded down 5.6% following the results while Goldman Sachs was up 3.1%.

Read our full analysis of Jefferies’s results here and Goldman Sachs’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the investment banking & brokerage segment, with share prices up 2.4% on average over the last month. Interactive Brokers is up 11.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $76.78 (compared to the current share price of $73.49).

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