HVAC and electrical contractor Comfort Systems (NYSE:FIX) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Comfort Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.83 billion, up 19.1% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ backlog estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Comfort Systems’s revenue to grow 8.6% year on year to $1.97 billion, slowing from the 39.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $4.84 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Comfort Systems has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 4.2% on average.
With Comfort Systems being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for construction and engineering stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 7.9% on average over the last month. Comfort Systems is up 5.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $541.54 (compared to the current share price of $532.80).
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