Real estate data provider CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) will be reporting results this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
CoStar beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $781.3 million, up 15.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting CoStar’s revenue to grow 17.6% year on year to $814.4 million, improving from the 10.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.19 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. CoStar has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at CoStar’s peers in the data & business process services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. TransUnion delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.2%, and SS&C reported revenues up 7%, topping estimates by 1.4%. TransUnion traded up 6.1% following the results while SS&C was also up 4.6%.
Read our full analysis of TransUnion’s results here and SS&C’s results here.
Investors in the data & business process services segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. CoStar is down 6.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $96.50 (compared to the current share price of $78.58).
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