Oil and gas producer Vitesse Energy (NYSE: VTS) will be announcing earnings results this Monday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.
Vitesse Energy missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $67.41 million, up 1.9% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates. It reported a year-on-year oil production decline of 2.1%.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Vitesse Energy’s revenue to grow 2.9% year on year, slowing from the 22.8% 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. Vitesse Energy has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Vitesse Energy’s peers in the upstream & integrated segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Weatherford’s revenues decreased 8.2% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and Peabody Energy reported revenues up 12.7%, in line with consensus estimates. Weatherford traded up 4.5% following the results while Peabody Energy was down 7.9%.
Read our full analysis of Weatherford’s results here and Peabody Energy’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the upstream & integrated segment, with share prices up 7% on average over the last month. Vitesse Energy is up 3.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $21.88 (compared to the current share price of $15.58).
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