Industrial products company CSW (NASDAQ: CSW) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
CSW missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $277 million, up 21.5% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting CSW’s revenue to grow 29.7% year on year to $251.2 million, improving from the 10.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.87 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. CSW has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at CSW’s peers in the building products segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AZZ delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.8%, and Insteel reported revenues up 23.3%, falling short of estimates by 1.3%. AZZ traded up 6.6% following the results while Insteel was also up 1.9%.
Read our full analysis of AZZ’s results here and Insteel’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the building products segment, with share prices up 9.3% on average over the last month. CSW is up 3.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $321.17 (compared to the current share price of $314.78).
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