Real estate technology company Compass (NYSE: COMP) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Compass beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.7 billion, up 23.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates. It reported 60,328 transactions, up 19.7% year on year.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Compass’s revenue to grow 97.4% year on year, improving from the 28.7% 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 to stay the course heading into earnings. Compass has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Compass’s peers in the consumer discretionary - real estate services segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. CBRE delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 18.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.5%, and Newmark reported revenues up 27.2%, topping estimates by 13.2%. CBRE traded down 3.4% following the results while Newmark was up 1.7%.
Read our full analysis of CBRE’s results here and Newmark’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary - real estate services segment, with share prices up 7% on average over the last month. Compass is up 9.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $12.83 (compared to the current share price of $7.43).
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