Snow and ice equipment company Douglas Dynamics (NYSE: PLOW) will be announcing earnings results this Monday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.
Douglas Dynamics missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $162.1 million, up 25.3% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and full-year EBITDA guidance slightly topping analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Douglas Dynamics’s revenue to grow 18.4% year on year, improving from the 6.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
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. Douglas Dynamics has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Douglas Dynamics’s peers in the heavy transportation equipment segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Greenbrier’s revenues decreased 19.4% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.7%, and Trinity reported a revenue decline of 2.9%, topping estimates by 7.1%. Greenbrier traded down 10.3% following the results while Trinity was up 10.7%.
Read our full analysis of Greenbrier’s results here and Trinity’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the heavy transportation equipment segment, with share prices up 6.7% on average over the last month. Douglas Dynamics is up 15.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $38.75 (compared to the current share price of $42.80).
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