Lennar (LEN) Q3 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Homebuilder Lennar (NYSE:LEN) will be reporting earnings this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.

Lennar beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $8.38 billion, down 4.4% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Lennar’s revenue to decline 3.8% year on year to $9.06 billion, a reversal from the 7.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.09 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. Lennar has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

With Lennar 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 industrials stocks. However, there has been positive investor sentiment in the segment, with share prices up 2.4% on average over the last month. Lennar is up 2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $124 (compared to the current share price of $134.10).

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