Water analytics and treatment company Veralto (NYSE: VLTO) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what to expect.
Veralto missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.40 billion, up 3.8% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but EPS guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Veralto’s revenue to grow 5.1% year on year, slowing from the 6.9% 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. Veralto has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Veralto’s peers in the environmental and facilities services segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Waste Connections delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.8%, and Rollins reported revenues up 10.2%, topping estimates by 1.2%. Waste Connections traded up 7.9% following the results while Rollins was also up 3%.
Read our full analysis of Waste Connections’s results here and Rollins’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the environmental and facilities services segment, with share prices up 15% on average over the last month. Veralto is up 3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $108.94 (compared to the current share price of $88.63).
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