Pest control company Rollins (NYSE: ROL) will be reporting results tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.

Rollins beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $832.2 million, up 10.4% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income and EPS estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Rollins’s revenue to grow 9.6% year on year to $820 million, slowing from the 13.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.22 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. Rollins has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

With Rollins being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for environmental and facilities services stocks. However, the whole sector has been hit hard over the last month as stocks in Rollins’s peer group are down 11.3% on average. Rollins is up 5.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $51.21 (compared to the current share price of $54.73).

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