Financial services provider CBIZ (NYSE: CBZ) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what to look for.
CBIZ missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $683.5 million, up 62.7% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting CBIZ’s revenue to grow 61.6% year on year to $709.2 million, improving from the 6.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.90 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. CBIZ has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice since going public.
Looking at CBIZ’s peers in the professional services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. FTI Consulting delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.2%, and Concentrix reported revenues up 4%, topping estimates by 1%. FTI Consulting traded up 1.3% following the results while Concentrix was down 13.3%.
Read our full analysis of FTI Consulting’s results here and Concentrix’s results here.
Investors in the professional services segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.3% on average over the last month. CBIZ is down 1.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $95 (compared to the current share price of $52.77).
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