Power transmission and fluid power solutions provider Gates Corporation (NYSE: GTES) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday morning. Here’s what you need to know.

Gates Industrial Corporation beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $883.7 million, flat year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with full-year EBITDA guidance exceeding analysts’ expectations but a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Gates Industrial Corporation’s revenue to grow 3.5% year on year to $859.5 million, a reversal from the 4.8% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.37 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. Gates Industrial Corporation has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.

Looking at Gates Industrial Corporation’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Worthington delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 18%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.4%, and GE Aerospace reported revenues up 26.4%, topping estimates by 3.7%. Worthington traded down 11.6% following the results while GE Aerospace was also down 1.6%.

Read our full analysis of Worthington’s results here and GE Aerospace’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the industrial machinery segment, with share prices up 3.8% on average over the last month. Gates Industrial Corporation is up 4.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $30.27 (compared to the current share price of $26.01).

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