Solar energy systems company Shoals (NASDAQ: SHLS) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
Shoals beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $107 million, down 18% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with full-year EBITDA guidance missing analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Shoals’s revenue to decline 18.3% year on year to $74.23 million, a further deceleration from the 13.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.04 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. Shoals has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Shoals’s peers in the renewable energy segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Generac delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.3%, and Bloom Energy reported revenues up 38.6%, topping estimates by 11.9%. Generac’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Bloom Energy was down 8.2%.
Read our full analysis of Generac’s results here and Bloom Energy’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the renewable energy segment, with share prices up 13% on average over the last month. Shoals is up 10.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $6.06 (compared to the current share price of $3.75).
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