Commercial vehicle retailer Rush Enterprises (NASDAQ: RUSH.A) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday afternoon. Here’s what to look for.
Rush Enterprises missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.68 billion, down 9% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Rush Enterprises’s revenue to decline 2% year on year, improving from the 4.8% 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. Rush Enterprises rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.
Looking at Rush Enterprises’s peers in the industrial distributors segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Richardson Electronics delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 27.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 19.6%, and United Rentals reported revenues up 11.8%, topping estimates by 4.9%. Richardson Electronics traded up 20.6% following the results while United Rentals was also up 10.1%.
Read our full analysis of Richardson Electronics’s results here and United Rentals’s results here.
Over the past year, investors have repeatedly shifted their focus from one macro narrative to another (AI disruption and AI capex spending to geopolitics, interest rates, and the broader health of the economy). While some of the industrial distributors stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.5% on average over the last month. Rush Enterprises is up 5.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $85 (compared to the current share price of $76.57).
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