Business payments company Corpay (NYSE: CPAY) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Corpay beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.34 billion, up 21.5% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with full-year EPS guidance topping analysts’ expectations and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Corpay’s revenue to grow 15.9% year on year, improving from the 13.9% 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. Corpay has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Corpay’s peers in the diversified financial services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Donnelley Financial Solutions delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.8%, and WEX reported revenues up 12.8%, topping estimates by 3.2%. Donnelley Financial Solutions traded up 25.9% following the results while WEX was down 3.3%.
Read our full analysis of Donnelley Financial Solutions’s results here and WEX’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the diversified financial services segment, with share prices up 5.2% on average over the last month. Corpay is up 1.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $460.67 (compared to the current share price of $409.28).
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