Elevator manufacturer Otis (NYSE: OTIS) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.

Otis missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.60 billion, flat year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Otis’s revenue to grow 2.7% year on year to $3.64 billion, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.00 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. Otis has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.

Looking at Otis’s peers in the general industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. GE Aerospace delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 26.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.7%, and Honeywell reported revenues up 7%, topping estimates by 2.6%. GE Aerospace traded down 1.6% following the results while Honeywell was up 4.6%.

Read our full analysis of GE Aerospace’s results here and Honeywell’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the general industrial machinery segment, with share prices up 3.8% on average over the last month. Otis’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $101.29 (compared to the current share price of $92.08).

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