Mondelez (MDLZ) Q1 Earnings: What To Expect

Packaged snacks company Mondelez (NASDAQ:MDLZ) will be reporting results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what you need to know.

Mondelez met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $9.60 billion, up 3.1% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Mondelez’s revenue to be flat year on year at $9.31 billion, slowing from the 1.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.66 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. Mondelez has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.

Looking at Mondelez’s peers in the shelf-stable food segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Lamb Weston delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.4%, and Simply Good Foods reported revenues up 15.2%, topping estimates by 1.6%. Lamb Weston traded up 9.1% following the results while Simply Good Foods was also up 9.2%.

Read our full analysis of Lamb Weston’s results here and Simply Good Foods’s results here.

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