Trucking company PACCAR (NASDAQ:PCAR) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
PACCAR missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $7.36 billion, down 14.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a slight miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting PACCAR’s revenue to decline 15.3% year on year to $6.97 billion, a reversal from the 2.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.58 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. PACCAR has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 2.3% on average.
Looking at PACCAR’s peers in the heavy transportation equipment segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Shyft delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.8%, and Wabtec reported revenues up 4.5%, falling short of estimates by 0.8%. Shyft traded up 18.1% following the results while Wabtec was also up 8%.
Read our full analysis of Shyft’s results here and Wabtec’s results here.
Investors in the heavy transportation equipment segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.4% on average over the last month. PACCAR is down 11.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $103.72 (compared to the current share price of $86.20).
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