Energy technology company Baker Hughes (NASDAQ: BKR) will be announcing earnings results next tomorrow after the bell. Here’s what to expect.
Baker Hughes beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $6.59 billion, up 2.5% year on year. It was a stunning quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Baker Hughes’s revenue to decline 5.9% year on year, a further deceleration from the 3.2% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Baker Hughes has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Baker Hughes’s peers in the oilfield services segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. World Kinect delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 50.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 27.7%, and Oceaneering reported revenues up 10%, topping estimates by 4.3%. World Kinect traded up 5.1% following the results while Oceaneering was also up 6.7%.
Read our full analysis of World Kinect’s results here and Oceaneering’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the oilfield services segment, with share prices up 4.3% on average over the last month. Baker Hughes’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $70.32 (compared to the current share price of $57.48).
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