Young adult apparel retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.

Abercrombie and Fitch met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.67 billion, up 5.4% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with EPS guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations significantly and revenue guidance for next quarter missing analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Abercrombie and Fitch’s revenue to grow 2.3% year on year, slowing from the 7.5% 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 to stay the course heading into earnings. Abercrombie and Fitch has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations.

Looking at Abercrombie and Fitch’s peers in the apparel and footwear retail segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Urban Outfitters delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.4%, and Boot Barn reported revenues up 18.7%, topping estimates by 1.5%. Urban Outfitters traded up 2.9% following the results while Boot Barn was down 1.7%.

Read our full analysis of Urban Outfitters’s results here and Boot Barn’s results here.

AI fears in late 2025 triggered a rotation into safer assets, but the US-Iran conflict in spring 2026 shifted anxiety from disruption to geopolitical risk. While some of the apparel and footwear retail stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.1% on average over the last month. Abercrombie and Fitch is down 12.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $113.10 (compared to the current share price of $76.03).

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