Sunrun Earnings: What To Look For From RUN

Residential solar energy company Sunrun (NASDAQ:RUN) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.

Sunrun beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $504.3 million, up 10.1% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ customer base estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EPS estimates. It added 25,428 customers to reach a total of 1.07 million.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Sunrun’s revenue to grow 4.5% year on year to $547.5 million, a reversal from the 11.2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.12 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. Sunrun has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.

Looking at Sunrun’s peers in the renewable energy segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Generac delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and American Superconductor reported revenues up 79.6%, topping estimates by 11.4%. Generac traded up 28.9% following the results while American Superconductor was also up 29.4%.

Read our full analysis of Generac’s results here and American Superconductor’s results here.

Investors in the renewable energy segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.4% on average over the last month. Sunrun is down 12.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $13.03 (compared to the current share price of $9.76).

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