Tobacco company Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Philip Morris missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $10.14 billion, up 7.1% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Philip Morris’s revenue to grow 7.3% year on year to $10.64 billion, slowing from the 8.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.10 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. Philip Morris has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Philip Morris’s peers in the consumer staples segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tilray delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.7%, and Constellation Brands reported a revenue decline of 15%, topping estimates by 0.5%. Tilray’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Constellation Brands was up 1%.
Read our full analysis of Tilray’s results here and Constellation Brands’s results here.
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