Contract logistics company GXO (NYSE: GXO) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
GXO Logistics beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.98 billion, up 21.2% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting GXO Logistics’s revenue to grow 9% year on year to $3.10 billion, slowing from the 18.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.56 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. GXO Logistics has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at GXO Logistics’s peers in the air freight and logistics segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. C.H. Robinson Worldwide’s revenues decreased 7.7% year on year, missing analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and FedEx reported flat revenue, topping estimates by 1.9%. C.H. Robinson Worldwide traded up 18.1% following the results while FedEx was down 3.2%.
Read our full analysis of C.H. Robinson Worldwide’s results here and FedEx’s results here.
Investors in the air freight and logistics segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. GXO Logistics is down 3.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $56.71 (compared to the current share price of $48.07).
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