Clothing company Kontoor Brands (NYSE: KTB) will be reporting results this Wednesday before the bell. Here’s what to expect.
Kontoor Brands missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $613.3 million, up 45% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Kontoor Brands’s revenue to grow 18.7% year on year, a reversal from the 18.8% decrease 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. Kontoor Brands has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Kontoor Brands’s peers in the consumer discretionary - apparel and accessories segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Figs delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 28.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5.6%, and Ralph Lauren reported revenues up 14%, topping estimates by 4.9%. Figs traded up 26.6% following the results while Ralph Lauren was also up 3.9%.
Read our full analysis of Figs’s results here and Ralph Lauren’s results here.
Investors in the consumer discretionary - apparel and accessories segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Kontoor Brands is down 9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $94.60 (compared to the current share price of $77.18).
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