Commercial real estate firm CBRE (NYSE: CBRE) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
CBRE missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $11.59 billion, up 11.8% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting CBRE’s revenue to grow 15.4% year on year, improving from the 12.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. CBRE has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at CBRE’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Forestar Group delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.6%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Monarch reported revenues up 8.9%, topping estimates by 5.2%.
Read our full analysis of Forestar Group’s results here and Monarch’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary segment, with share prices up 11.3% on average over the last month. CBRE is up 10.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $175.67 (compared to the current share price of $150.04).
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