Waste and recycling services provider Quest Resource (NASDAQ: QRHC) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Quest Resource beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $64.07 million, up 7.6% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Quest Resource’s revenue to grow 4.7% year on year, a reversal from the 13% decrease 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. Quest Resource has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Quest Resource’s peers in the waste management segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Clean Harbors delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 8.3%, and Republic Services reported revenues up 8.2%, topping estimates by 3.1%. Clean Harbors traded down 1.1% following the results while Republic Services was up 3.3%.
Read our full analysis of Clean Harbors’s results here and Republic Services’s results here.
Investors in the waste management segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Quest Resource is down 28.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $3.25 (compared to the current share price of $1.01).
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