Shipping and mailing solutions provider Pitney Bowes (NYSE:PBI) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Pitney Bowes beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $516.1 million, down 2% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Pitney Bowes’s revenue to decline 39.9% year on year to $499 million, a deceleration from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.27 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. Pitney Bowes has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Pitney Bowes’s peers in the industrial & environmental services segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. CECO Environmental delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 39.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 17%, and UniFirst reported revenues up 1.9%, in line with consensus estimates. CECO Environmental traded up 23.9% following the results while UniFirst was down 1.7%.
Read our full analysis of CECO Environmental’s results here and UniFirst’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the industrial & environmental services segment, with share prices up 11.2% on average over the last month. Pitney Bowes is up 12.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $17 (compared to the current share price of $9.02).
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