What To Expect From APi's (APG) Q4 Earnings

Safety and specialty services provider APi (NYSE:APG) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before the bell. Here’s what to expect.

APi beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.09 billion, up 14.2% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.

Is APi a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members.

This quarter, the market is expecting APi’s revenue to grow 12.2% year on year, improving from the 5.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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. APi has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at APi’s peers in the construction and maintenance services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Primoris delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Comfort Systems reported revenues up 41.7%, topping estimates by 13%. Comfort Systems traded up 6% following the results.

Read our full analysis of Primoris’s results here and Comfort Systems’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the construction and maintenance services segment, with share prices up 4.3% on average over the last month. APi is up 2.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $46.36 (compared to the current share price of $44.63).

Today’s young investors won’t have read the timeless lessons in Gorilla Game: Picking Winners In High Technology because it was written more than 20 years ago when Microsoft and Apple were first establishing their supremacy. But if we apply the same principles, then enterprise software stocks leveraging their own generative AI capabilities may well be the Gorillas of the future. So, in that spirit, we are excited to present our Special Free Report on a profitable, fast-growing enterprise software stock that is already riding the automation wave and looking to catch the generative AI next.