Freight and logistics provider Covenant Logistics (NASDAQ: CVLG) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Covenant Logistics missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $269.4 million, down 3.4% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ Freight revenue estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Covenant Logistics’s revenue to grow 1.6% year on year to $292.1 million, slowing from the 4.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.42 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. Covenant Logistics has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Covenant Logistics’s peers in the transportation and logistics segment, only FedEx has reported results so far. It beat analysts’ revenue estimates by 1.9% and delivered flat year-on-year revenue. The stock was down 3.2% on the results.
Read our full analysis of FedEx’s earnings results here.There has been positive sentiment among investors in the transportation and logistics segment, with share prices up 5.9% on average over the last month. Covenant Logistics’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $32.67 (compared to the current share price of $23.60).
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