Aerospace and defense company Mercury Systems (NASDAQ: MRCY) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow afternoon. Here’s what to expect.
Mercury Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $289.8 million, up 6.1% year on year. It was a favorable quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Mercury Systems’s revenue to grow 8.7% year on year, slowing from the 10.2% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Mercury Systems has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.
Looking at Mercury Systems’s peers in the defense contractors segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Huntington Ingalls delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 10.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.3%, and RTX reported revenues up 11.1%, topping estimates by 3.3%. Huntington Ingalls traded up 13.5% following the results while RTX’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Huntington Ingalls’s results here and RTX’s results here.
Investors in the defense contractors segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Mercury Systems is down 7.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $109 (compared to the current share price of $71.81).
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