Industrial supplier Fastenal (NASDAQ: FAST) will be announcing earnings results this Monday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Fastenal met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.03 billion, up 11.1% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Fastenal’s revenue to grow 12.2% year on year, improving from the 3.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
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. Fastenal has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Fastenal’s peers in the industrial distributors segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. MSC Industrial delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 2.9%, missing analysts’ expectations by 1.6%, and Richardson Electronics reported revenues up 3.1%, topping estimates by 4.4%. MSC Industrial traded down 2.1% following the results while Richardson Electronics was up 21.8%.
Read our full analysis of MSC Industrial’s results here and Richardson Electronics’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the industrial distributors segment, with share prices up 7.8% on average over the last month. Fastenal is up 8.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $45.33 (compared to the current share price of $49.38).
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