Safety and specialty services provider APi (NYSE: APG) will be reporting results this Thursday morning. Here’s what you need to know.
APi beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.72 billion, up 7.4% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting APi’s revenue to grow 9.4% year on year to $1.89 billion, a reversal from the 2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.37 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. APi has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at APi’s peers in the construction and engineering segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Comfort Systems delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 10.6%, and Orion reported revenues up 6.8%, topping estimates by 3.5%. Comfort Systems traded up 22.3% 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 5.5% on average over the last month. APi is up 1.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $37.63 (compared to the current share price of $34.59).
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