Financial services company Northern Trust (NASDAQ: NTRS) will be reporting results this Wednesday before market open. Here’s what you need to know.
Northern Trust beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.21 billion, up 13.8% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Northern Trust’s revenue to grow 9.8% year on year, improving from the 7.8% 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. Northern Trust has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Northern Trust’s peers in the custody bank segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. BNY delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 13.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.4%, and State Street reported revenues up 16.7%, topping estimates by 3.8%. BNY traded up 4.2% following the results while State Street was down 2.2%.
Read our full analysis of BNY’s results here and State Street’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the custody bank segment, with share prices up 6.2% on average over the last month. Northern Trust is up 4.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $179.35 (compared to the current share price of $182.78).
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