Aerospace and defense technology solutions provider Astronics Corporation (NASDAQ: ATRO) will be reporting results tomorrow afternoon. Here’s what to look for.
Astronics beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $208.5 million, up 6.8% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Astronics’s revenue to grow 3.7% year on year to $191.9 million, slowing from the 18.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.30 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. Astronics has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 3.5% on average.
Looking at Astronics’s peers in the aerospace segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Boeing delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 17.7%, missing analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and Textron reported revenues up 5.5%, topping estimates by 2.3%. Boeing traded up 8.5% following the results while Textron was also up 3.5%.
Read our full analysis of Boeing’s results here and Textron’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the aerospace segment, with share prices up 13% on average over the last month. Astronics is up 10% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $24.74 (compared to the current share price of $23.85).
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