Civil infrastructure company Construction Partners (NASDAQ:ROAD) will be reporting earnings this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Construction Partners beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $571.7 million, up 53.9% year on year. It was a stunning quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Construction Partners’s revenue to grow 52.4% year on year to $789.2 million, improving from the 22.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.82 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Construction Partners has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Construction Partners’s peers in the construction and maintenance services segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Primoris delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 12.1%, and Comfort Systems reported revenues up 20.1%, topping estimates by 10.6%. Primoris traded up 16.7% following the results while Comfort Systems was also up 22.3%.
Read our full analysis of Primoris’s results here and Comfort Systems’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the construction and maintenance services segment, with share prices up 2.1% on average over the last month. Construction Partners is down 9.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $113.50 (compared to the current share price of $96.80).
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