Aerospace and defense company Mercury Systems (NASDAQ: MRCY) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market close. Here’s what to look for.
Mercury Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 23.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $223.1 million, up 13% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Mercury Systems’s revenue to decline 2.9% year on year to $202.1 million, improving from the 21% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.07 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. Mercury Systems has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Mercury Systems’s peers in the defense contractors segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. CACI delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.5%, and Lockheed Martin reported revenues up 4.5%, topping estimates by 1.1%. CACI traded up 7.9% following the results while Lockheed Martin was also up 1.1%.
Read our full analysis of CACI’s results here and Lockheed Martin’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the defense contractors segment, with share prices up 13% on average over the last month. Mercury Systems is up 23.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $45 (compared to the current share price of $51.44).
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