Safety certification company UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) will be reporting results this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.

UL Solutions beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $783 million, up 7.1% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a decent beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting UL Solutions’s revenue to grow 5.8% year on year to $781.6 million, slowing from the 8% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.45 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. UL Solutions has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 1.2% on average.

Looking at UL Solutions’s peers in the government & technical consulting segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Jacobs Solutions delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.7%, and Booz Allen Hamilton reported a revenue decline of 10.2%, falling short of estimates by 3.8%. Jacobs Solutions traded up 7.8% following the results while Booz Allen Hamilton was down 1.9%.

Read our full analysis of Jacobs Solutions’s results here and Booz Allen Hamilton’s results here.

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