Metal coating and infrastructure solutions provider AZZ (NYSE: AZZ) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

AZZ missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $422 million, up 2.1% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but full-year revenue guidance slightly missing analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting AZZ’s revenue to grow 4.3% year on year to $426.5 million, improving from the 2.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.57 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. AZZ has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.

With AZZ being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for building products stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 3.5% on average over the last month. AZZ is down 6.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $126.89 (compared to the current share price of $107.54).

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