Industrial components supplier NN (NASDAQ:NNBR) will be reporting results tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
NN missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $106.5 million, down 5.3% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting NN’s revenue to decline 7.6% year on year to $112 million, a further deceleration from the 4.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.03 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. NN has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at NN’s peers in the engineered components and systems segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Arrow Electronics’s revenues decreased 1.6% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.2%, and Gates Industrial Corporation reported a revenue decline of 1.7%, topping estimates by 2.9%. Arrow Electronics traded up 3.6% following the results while Gates Industrial Corporation was also up 6.2%.
Read our full analysis of Arrow Electronics’s results here and Gates Industrial Corporation’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the engineered components and systems segment, with share prices up 12.3% on average over the last month. NN is down 2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $6.67 (compared to the current share price of $1.96).
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