Global airline American Airlines (NASDAQ: AAL) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what you need to know.

American Airlines met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $13.69 billion, flat year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with EPS guidance for next quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates. It reported 66.58 billion revenue passenger miles, up 1.6% year on year.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting American Airlines’s revenue to grow 2.8% year on year to $14.04 billion, slowing from the 4.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.35 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. American Airlines has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.

Looking at American Airlines’s peers in the travel and vacation providers segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Carnival delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.6%, missing analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and United Airlines reported revenues up 4.8%, in line with consensus estimates. Carnival traded up 13.6% following the results while United Airlines was also up 2.2%.

Read our full analysis of Carnival’s results here and United Airlines’s results here.

Investors in the travel and vacation providers segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1% on average over the last month. American Airlines is down 3.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $17.46 (compared to the current share price of $14.65).

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