Insurance holding company Globe Life (NYSE: GL) will be reporting results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what to expect.
Globe Life met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.5 billion, up 3.2% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ book value per share estimates and a narrow beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Globe Life’s revenue to grow 4.4% year on year to $1.52 billion, in line with the 5.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $4.54 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. Globe Life has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Globe Life’s peers in the insurance segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. RLI delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 12.4%, and Travelers reported revenues up 5%, topping estimates by 0.9%. Travelers traded down 2.7% following the results.
Read our full analysis of RLI’s results here and Travelers’s results here.
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