Tanking company Scorpio Tankers (NYSE: STNG) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Scorpio Tankers met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $232.9 million, down 9.8% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates. It reported 99 total vessels, down 5.5% year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Scorpio Tankers’s revenue to grow 18.7% year on year to $228 million, a reversal from the 42.5% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.55 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. Scorpio Tankers has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Scorpio Tankers’s peers in the transportation and logistics segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Kirby delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.2%, missing analysts’ expectations by 1.4%, and XPO reported revenues up 4.7%, topping estimates by 2.9%. Kirby traded down 8.2% following the results while XPO was up 13.4%.
Read our full analysis of Kirby’s results here and XPO’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the transportation and logistics segment, with share prices up 8.6% on average over the last month. Scorpio Tankers is up 25.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $74.88 (compared to the current share price of $68.15).
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