Investment management firm Cohen & Steers (NYSE: CNS) will be reporting earnings this Thursday after market close. Here’s what to look for.
Cohen & Steers missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $136.1 million, up 11.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS and revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Cohen & Steers’s revenue to grow 4.2% year on year to $138.8 million, slowing from the 7.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.78 per share.
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. Cohen & Steers has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice since going public.
Looking at Cohen & Steers’s peers in the capital markets segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Jefferies delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 21.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 8.4%, and Goldman Sachs reported revenues up 19.6%, topping estimates by 6.8%. Jefferies traded down 1.9% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Jefferies’s results here and Goldman Sachs’s results here.
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