Aerospace and defense company Huntington Ingalls (NYSE: HII) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
Huntington Ingalls beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 5.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.08 billion, up 3.5% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Huntington Ingalls’s revenue to grow 7.4% year on year to $2.95 billion, a reversal from the 2.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.44 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. Huntington Ingalls has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Huntington Ingalls’s peers in the defense contractors segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. RTX delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.4%, and General Dynamics reported revenues up 10.6%, topping estimates by 3.1%. RTX traded up 10.8% following the results while General Dynamics was also up 3.5%.
Read our full analysis of RTX’s results here and General Dynamics’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the defense contractors segment, with share prices up 3.1% on average over the last month. Huntington Ingalls is up 6.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $296.44 (compared to the current share price of $298.09).
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