Diversified healthcare company CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) will be reporting results this Wednesday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
CVS Health beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $100.4 billion, up 6.2% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting CVS Health’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 8.4% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. CVS Health rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.
Looking at CVS Health’s peers in the health insurance providers segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Centene delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 9.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 13.1%, and UnitedHealth reported flat revenue, topping estimates by 1.2%. Centene traded down 3.5% following the results while UnitedHealth was up 1.8%.
Read our full analysis of Centene’s results here and UnitedHealth’s results here.
Investors in the health insurance providers segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.9% on average over the last month. CVS Health is up 3.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $114.88 (compared to the current share price of $105.47).
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