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Intelligent lighting and space solutions provider Acuity Brands (NYSE:AYI) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow morning. Here’s what to look for.
Acuity Brands beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.03 billion, up 2.2% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Acuity Brands’s revenue to grow 2.3% year on year to $956.2 million, a reversal from the 6.3% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.89 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. Acuity Brands has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
With Acuity Brands being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for electrical equipment stocks. However, the segment has faced declining investor sentiment as Acuity Brands’s peer group is down 5.7% on average over the last month. Acuity Brands is down 4.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $328.50 (compared to the current share price of $307.56).