Defense contractor Leidos (NYSE:LDOS) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Leidos beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.25 billion, up 6.8% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ backlog estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Leidos’s revenue to grow 2.9% year on year to $4.25 billion, slowing from the 7.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.65 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Leidos has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 3.6% on average.
Looking at Leidos’s peers in the defense contractors segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. General Dynamics delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.7%, and Northrop Grumman reported revenues up 1.3%, topping estimates by 3%. General Dynamics traded up 5.7% following the results while Northrop Grumman was also up 10.4%.
Read our full analysis of General Dynamics’s results here and Northrop Grumman’s results here.
Investors in the defense contractors segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Leidos is down 2.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $173.54 (compared to the current share price of $160.20).
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