Fragrance and perfume company Inter Parfums (NASDAQ: IPAR) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Inter Parfums beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $341 million, up 2.1% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ gross margin estimates and full-year revenue guidance missing analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Inter Parfums’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 1.2% 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. Inter Parfums has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Inter Parfums’s peers in the personal care segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Estée Lauder delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.8%, and Medifast reported a revenue decline of 19.4%, topping estimates by 1%. Medifast traded up 5.2% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Estée Lauder’s results here and Medifast’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the personal care segment, with share prices up 8.3% on average over the last month. Inter Parfums is up 5.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $126.50 (compared to the current share price of $119.81).
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