Tenet Healthcare (THC) Q3 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Hospital operator Tenet Healthcare (NYSE:THC) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday morning. Here’s what you need to know.

Tenet Healthcare beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $5.27 billion, up 3.3% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Tenet Healthcare’s revenue to grow 2.6% year on year to $5.26 billion, improving from the 1.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.35 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. Tenet Healthcare has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.7% on average.

Looking at Tenet Healthcare’s peers in the healthcare providers & services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. HCA Healthcare delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 9.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Quest reported revenues up 13.2%, topping estimates by 3.3%. Quest traded down 4.9% following the results.

Read our full analysis of HCA Healthcare’s results here and Quest’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the healthcare providers & services segment, with share prices up 7.6% on average over the last month. Tenet Healthcare is up 4.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $213.29 (compared to the current share price of $210.38).

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