Flavor and fragrance producer IFF (NYSE: IFF) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what to expect.

International Flavors & Fragrances beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.59 billion, down 6.6% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting International Flavors & Fragrances’s revenue to decline 7.2% year on year, a further deceleration from the 1.9% decrease 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. International Flavors & Fragrances has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.

Looking at International Flavors & Fragrances’s peers in the consumer staples segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Bunge Global delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 87.8%, missing analysts’ expectations by 3.1%, and Darling Ingredients reported revenues up 12.3%, in line with consensus estimates. Bunge Global’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Darling Ingredients was up 1.5%.

Read our full analysis of Bunge Global’s results here and Darling Ingredients’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer staples segment, with share prices up 2.8% on average over the last month. International Flavors & Fragrances is down 1.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $88.41 (compared to the current share price of $70.81).

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