Infrastructure solutions provider Quanta (NYSE: PWR) will be reporting earnings this Thursday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
Quanta beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $9.56 billion, up 41.1% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Quanta’s revenue to grow 44.6% year on year, improving from the 17.5% 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. Quanta has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Quanta’s peers in the construction and engineering segment, only Comfort Systems has reported results so far. It exceeded analysts’ revenue estimates, delivering year-on-year sales growth of 53.7%. The stock was down 9.3% on the results.
Read our full analysis of Comfort Systems’s earnings results here.In the last year or so, investors have shifted their focus from one macro dynamic to the next (AI disintermediation and AI investment to geopolitical conflict, interest rates, and the health of the wider economy). While some of the construction and engineering stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.7% on average over the last month. Quanta is down 10% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $760.90 (compared to the current share price of $580.16).
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