Logistics and freight forwarding company Expeditors (NYSE: EXPD) will be reporting results this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
Expeditors beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.78 billion, up 4.4% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Expeditors’s revenue to grow 11.4% year on year, improving from the 8.7% 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. Expeditors has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
Looking at Expeditors’s peers in the air freight and logistics segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. C.H. Robinson Worldwide delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 19.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 12.7%, and United Parcel Service reported revenues up 7.6%, topping estimates by 4.4%. C.H. Robinson Worldwide traded down 14.7% following the results while United Parcel Service was also down 7.4%.
Read our full analysis of C.H. Robinson Worldwide’s results here and United Parcel Service’s results here.
In the last year or so, investors have shifted their focus from one macro dynamic to the next (AI disintermediation and AI investment to geopolitical conflict, interest rates, and the health of the wider economy). While some of the air freight and logistics stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5% on average over the last month. Expeditors is up 1.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $157.14 (compared to the current share price of $166.75).
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