Safety and specialty services provider APi (NYSE: APG) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
APi beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 5.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.99 billion, up 15.1% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting APi’s revenue to grow 9.9% year on year to $2.01 billion, improving from the 2.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.40 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. APi has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at APi’s peers in the construction and engineering segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Comfort Systems delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 35.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 13.2%, and Orion reported flat revenue, in line with consensus estimates. Comfort Systems traded up 18.9% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Comfort Systems’s results here and Orion’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the construction and engineering segment, with share prices up 3.1% on average over the last month. APi’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $41.30 (compared to the current share price of $34.31).
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