Fluid and coating equipment company Graco (NYSE: GGG) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Graco missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $571.8 million, up 3.4% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Graco’s revenue to grow 7.9% year on year to $560.4 million, a reversal from the 3.8% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.74 per share.
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. Graco has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at Graco’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Worthington delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 18%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.4%, and Snap-on reported revenues up 3.6%, topping estimates by 2.7%. Worthington traded down 11.6% following the results while Snap-on was up 2.2%.
Read our full analysis of Worthington’s results here and Snap-on’s results here.
Investors in the industrial machinery segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.4% on average over the last month. Graco is down 2.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $92.33 (compared to the current share price of $82.34).
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