Aerospace and defense company Ducommun (NYSE: DCO) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday morning. Here’s what to expect.
Ducommun beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $209 million, up 8.6% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Ducommun’s revenue to grow 6.5% year on year, improving from the 2.7% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Ducommun has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Ducommun’s peers in the aerospace segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AAR delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 26.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.9%, and TransDigm reported revenues up 22.5%, topping estimates by 2.5%. AAR traded down 9.8% following the results.
Read our full analysis of AAR’s results here and TransDigm’s results here.
Investors in the aerospace segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Ducommun is up 1.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $181 (compared to the current share price of $192).
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