Civil infrastructure company Construction Partners (NASDAQ:ROAD) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow morning. Here’s what you need to know.
Construction Partners missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $538.2 million, up 13.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with full-year EBITDA guidance beating analysts’ expectations but a miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Construction Partners’s revenue to grow 29.2% year on year to $512.1 million, improving from the 16% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.15 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. Construction Partners has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Construction Partners’s peers in the construction and engineering segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Matrix Service delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.1%, and AECOM reported revenues up 2.9%, falling short of estimates by 2.3%. AECOM’s stock price was unchanged following the results.
Read our full analysis of Matrix Service’s results here and AECOM’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the construction and engineering segment, with share prices up 2.8% on average over the last month. Construction Partners is down 9.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $103.67 (compared to the current share price of $84.96).
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