MasterCraft (MCFT) Q4 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Sport boat manufacturer MasterCraft (NASDAQ:MCFT) will be reporting earnings this Thursday morning. Here’s what investors should know.

MasterCraft beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $69 million, up 5.6% 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’ EBITDA estimates. It reported 565 boats sold, up 2.5% year on year.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting MasterCraft’s revenue to grow 8.8% year on year to $68.93 million, a reversal from the 29.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.16 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. MasterCraft has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.

Looking at MasterCraft’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Brunswick delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 15.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 10.3%, and Polaris reported revenues up 9%, topping estimates by 6.8%. Brunswick traded down 4.7% following the results while Polaris was also down 4.2%.

Read our full analysis of Brunswick’s results here and Polaris’s results here.

Investors in the consumer discretionary segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.4% on average over the last month. MasterCraft is up 14.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $22.80 (compared to the current share price of $22.27).

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