Mortgage banking company PennyMac Financial Services (NYSE: PFSI) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
PennyMac Financial Services beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $583.1 million, up 10.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ net interest income estimates and a miss of analysts’ tangible book value per share estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting PennyMac Financial Services’s revenue to grow 4.8% year on year, slowing from the 14.4% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. PennyMac Financial Services has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at PennyMac Financial Services’s peers in the thrifts & mortgage finance segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Northwest Bancshares delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.2%, and Ladder Capital reported revenues up 2.4%, topping estimates by 3.3%. Ladder Capital’s stock price was unchanged following the results.
Read our full analysis of Northwest Bancshares’s results here and Ladder Capital’s results here.
Investors in the thrifts & mortgage finance segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. PennyMac Financial Services is down 1.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $102.57 (compared to the current share price of $84.48).
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