Packaged foods company B&G Foods (NYSE: BGS) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
B&G Foods beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $408.9 million, down 3.9% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and full-year revenue guidance meeting analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting B&G Foods’s revenue to decline 6.4% year on year, a further deceleration from the 4.5% decrease 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. B&G Foods has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at B&G Foods’s peers in the shelf-stable food segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Lamb Weston delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.8%, and Hershey reported revenues up 6.6%, topping estimates by 5.7%. Lamb Weston traded up 8% following the results while Hershey was down 4.8%.
Read our full analysis of Lamb Weston’s results here and Hershey’s results here.
Investors in the shelf-stable food segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.9% on average over the last month. B&G Foods is down 10.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $4.80 (compared to the current share price of $3.50).
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