Digital small business lender Live Oak Bancshares (NYSE: LOB) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what to expect.

Live Oak Bancshares beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $143.7 million, up 14.6% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ net interest income estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Live Oak Bancshares’s revenue to grow 12.8% year on year to $146.6 million, improving from the 2.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.60 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. Live Oak Bancshares has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at Live Oak Bancshares’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. First Horizon delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.7%, and FB Financial reported revenues up 94.2%, topping estimates by 4.2%. First Horizon traded down 13.3% following the results while FB Financial’s stock price was unchanged.

Read our full analysis of First Horizon’s results here and FB Financial’s results here.

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