Waste management company Casella (NASDAQ: CWST) will be reporting results this Thursday after the bell. Here’s what you need to know.
Casella Waste Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $465.3 million, up 23.4% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Casella Waste Systems’s revenue to grow 15.7% year on year to $476.3 million, in line with the 16.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.32 per share.
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. Casella Waste Systems has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Casella Waste Systems’s peers in the environmental and facilities services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Waste Connections delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.5%, and Waste Management reported revenues up 14.9%, falling short of estimates by 0.9%. Waste Connections traded up 2.7% following the results while Waste Management was down 4.4%.
Read our full analysis of Waste Connections’s results here and Waste Management’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the environmental and facilities services segment, with share prices up 3.1% on average over the last month. Casella Waste Systems is down 3.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $115 (compared to the current share price of $88.02).
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