Child care and education company Bright Horizons (NYSE: BFAM) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what to look for.
Bright Horizons met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $712.2 million, up 7% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but full-year revenue guidance meeting analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Bright Horizons’s revenue to grow 5.8% year on year, slowing from the 9.2% 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. Bright Horizons has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Bright Horizons’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AMC Entertainment delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 14.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 8.7%, and Delta reported revenues up 18.7%, topping estimates by 3.9%. AMC Entertainment traded up 13.4% following the results while Delta was down 3.2%.
Read our full analysis of AMC Entertainment’s results here and Delta’s results here.
Investors in the consumer discretionary segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Bright Horizons is up 13.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $91 (compared to the current share price of $80.68).
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