Industrial supplies company MSC Industrial Direct (NYSE: MSM) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

MSC Industrial met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $965.7 million, up 4% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a decent beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting MSC Industrial’s revenue to grow 4.7% year on year, a reversal from the 4.7% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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. MSC Industrial has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

With MSC Industrial 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 industrial distributors stocks. However, the whole sector has faced a sell-off over the last month with stocks in MSC Industrial’s peer group down 13.1% on average. MSC Industrial is down 4.4% during the same time .

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