Global professional services company Jacobs Solutions (NYSE: J) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Jacobs Solutions beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.15 billion, up 6.6% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Jacobs Solutions’s revenue to grow 5.4% year on year to $3.09 billion, improving from the 4.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.50 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. Jacobs Solutions has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at Jacobs Solutions’s peers in the professional services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Booz Allen Hamilton’s revenues decreased 10.2% year on year, missing analysts’ expectations by 3.8%, and Robert Half reported a revenue decline of 5.8%, topping estimates by 1.1%. Booz Allen Hamilton traded down 1.9% following the results while Robert Half was up 27.8%.
Read our full analysis of Booz Allen Hamilton’s results here and Robert Half’s results here.
Investors in the professional services segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Jacobs Solutions is down 2.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $155.93 (compared to the current share price of $134.77).
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