Data center products and services company Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before market open. Here’s what to expect.
Vertiv missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.27 billion, up 24.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with full-year EPS guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations but a significant miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Vertiv’s revenue to grow 40.8% year on year, improving from the 29% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Vertiv has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Vertiv’s peers in the electrical systems segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Allegion delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 9.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Acuity Brands reported revenues up 2.9%, falling short of estimates by 1.1%. Allegion traded up 12.6% following the results while Acuity Brands’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Allegion’s results here and Acuity Brands’s results here.
In the last year or so, investors have shifted their focus from one macro dynamic to the next (AI disintermediation and AI investment to geopolitical conflict, interest rates, and the health of the wider economy). While some of the electrical systems stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 4.2% on average over the last month. Vertiv is down 16.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $333 (compared to the current share price of $203.79).
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