Household products company Spectrum Brands (NYSE: SPB) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what you need to know.
Spectrum Brands missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $700.2 million, up 1.2% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Spectrum Brands’s revenue to decline 3.8% year on year to $691.1 million, a further deceleration from the 1.5% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.38 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. Spectrum Brands has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Spectrum Brands’s peers in the household products segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Clorox’s revenues decreased 8% year on year, missing analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Colgate-Palmolive reported a revenue decline of 3.1%, topping estimates by 0.6%. Colgate-Palmolive traded down 1.8% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Clorox’s results here and Colgate-Palmolive’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the household products segment, with share prices up 2.1% on average over the last month. Spectrum Brands is up 5.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $92.38 (compared to the current share price of $64.24).
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