Industrial equipment and engineered products manufacturer Albany (NYSE: AIN) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what to expect.
Albany beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $321.2 million, up 12% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Albany’s revenue to decline 2.7% year on year, improving from the 7.8% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Albany has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Albany’s peers in the general industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Crane delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 24.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.8%, and GE Aerospace reported revenues up 29%, topping estimates by 8.3%. Crane traded down 2.9% following the results while GE Aerospace was also down 9%.
Read our full analysis of Crane’s results here and GE Aerospace’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the general industrial machinery segment, with share prices up 14.1% on average over the last month. Albany is up 8.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $56.25 (compared to the current share price of $54.59).
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