Expeditors (EXPD) Reports Earnings Tomorrow: What To Expect

Logistics and freight forwarding company Expeditors (NYSE:EXPD) will be reporting results this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

Expeditors beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.89 billion, down 3.5% year on year. It was a stunning quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.

This quarter, the market is expecting Expeditors’s revenue to decline 3.4% year on year, a reversal from the 29.7% 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. Expeditors has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Expeditors’s peers in the transportation and logistics segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. United Parcel Service’s revenues decreased 3.2% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.8%, and C.H. Robinson Worldwide reported a revenue decline of 6.5%, falling short of estimates by 1.9%. United Parcel Service traded down 3.1% following the results while C.H. Robinson Worldwide was up 5.1%.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the transportation and logistics segment, with share prices up 7.1% on average over the last month. Expeditors is down 1.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $140.47 (compared to the current share price of $156.34).

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