Alternative fuel provider Clean Energy Fuels (NASDAQ: CLNE) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Clean Energy Fuels beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $106.4 million, up 3.7% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Clean Energy Fuels’s revenue to decline 4.6% year on year, a reversal from the 1.2% 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. Clean Energy Fuels has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
Looking at Clean Energy Fuels’s peers in the mixed or offshore upstream e&p segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Talos Energy delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 27.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.3%, and Black Stone Minerals reported a revenue decline of 24.7%, falling short of estimates by 12.6%. Black Stone Minerals’s stock price was unchanged following the results.
Read our full analysis of Talos Energy’s results here and Black Stone Minerals’s 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 mixed or offshore upstream e&p stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.2% on average over the last month. Clean Energy Fuels’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $3.98 (compared to the current share price of $1.57).
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