Energy and construction materials company MDU Resources (NYSE: MDU) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
MDU Resources beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 15.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $351.2 million, up 1.9% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and full-year EPS guidance missing analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting MDU Resources’s revenue to decline 71% year on year to $305 million, a reversal from the 5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.11 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. MDU Resources has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time since going public by 9.6% on average.
Looking at MDU Resources’s peers in the energy products and services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Quanta delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 17.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.8%, and Ameresco reported revenues up 5%, topping estimates by 1%. Quanta’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Ameresco was down 9.4%.
Read our full analysis of Quanta’s results here and Ameresco’s results here.
Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the energy products and services stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.5% on average over the last month. MDU Resources is up 8.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $20.60 (compared to the current share price of $19.41).
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