Theme park operator United Parks & Resorts (NYSE:PRKS)
will be reporting results this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what you need to know.
United Parks & Resorts missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $490.2 million, down 1.5% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates. It reported 6.23 million visitors, flat year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting United Parks & Resorts’s revenue to decline 1.1% year on year to $539.8 million, in line with its flat revenue from the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.37 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. United Parks & Resorts has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at United Parks & Resorts’s peers in the leisure facilities segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Lucky Strike delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 12.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Live Nation reported revenues up 11.1%, falling short of estimates by 0.9%.
Read our full analysis of Lucky Strike’s results here and Live Nation’s results here.
Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the leisure facilities stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 7% on average over the last month. United Parks & Resorts is down 15.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $57.55 (compared to the current share price of $46).
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