Digital small business lender Live Oak Bancshares (NYSE: LOB) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Live Oak Bancshares beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $151.9 million, up 16.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a miss of analysts’ tangible book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Live Oak Bancshares’s revenue to grow 13.7% year on year, improving from the 10.7% increase 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. Live Oak Bancshares has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Live Oak Bancshares’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Wintrust Financial delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.2%, and BancFirst reported revenues up 7.8%, topping estimates by 1%. BancFirst traded up 3.6% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Wintrust Financial’s results here and BancFirst’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the regional banks segment, with share prices up 10.2% on average over the last month. Live Oak Bancshares is up 14.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $44 (compared to the current share price of $37.40).
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