Clothing and accessories retailer Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Urban Outfitters beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.53 billion, up 12.3% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Urban Outfitters’s revenue to grow 9.2% year on year, in line with the 9.4% 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 to stay the course heading into earnings. Urban Outfitters has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Urban Outfitters’s peers in the apparel and footwear retail segment, only Boot Barn has reported results so far. It met analysts’ revenue estimates, delivering year-on-year sales growth of 16%. The stock traded up 2.9% on the results.
Read our full analysis of Boot Barn’s earnings results here.Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the apparel and footwear retail stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.5% on average over the last month. Urban Outfitters is down 5.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $85.25 (compared to the current share price of $65.26).
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