Heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration company Carrier Global (NYSE: CARR) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Carrier Global beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $5.34 billion, up 2.4% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Carrier Global’s revenue to decline 1.6% year on year, a reversal from the 3% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Carrier Global has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Carrier Global’s peers in the building products segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Apogee’s revenues decreased 1.1% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and AZZ reported revenues up 6.3%, topping estimates by 3.2%. AZZ traded down 1.9% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Apogee’s results here and AZZ’s results here.
Over the last year or so, investors' attention has moved from one major market theme to the next, spanning AI disruption and surging infrastructure investment to geopolitical tensions, interest rates, and the health of the broader economy. While some of the building products stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.5% on average over the last month. Carrier Global is down 5.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $77.28 (compared to the current share price of $68.81).
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