Diversified manufacturing and supply chain services provider Park-Ohio (NASDAQ: PKOH) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after the bell. Here’s what to look for.
Park-Ohio missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $388.4 million, flat year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Park-Ohio’s revenue to grow 1.9% year on year to $425.5 million, a reversal from the 1.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.84 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. Park-Ohio has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Park-Ohio’s peers in the engineered components and systems segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Arrow Electronics’s revenues decreased 1.6% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.2%, and Gates Industrial Corporation reported a revenue decline of 1.7%, topping estimates by 2.9%. Arrow Electronics traded up 3.6% following the results while Gates Industrial Corporation was also up 6.2%.
Read our full analysis of Arrow Electronics’s results here and Gates Industrial Corporation’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the engineered components and systems segment, with share prices up 12.9% on average over the last month. Park-Ohio is up 10.3% during the same time.
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