Beauty supply retailer Sally Beauty (NYSE: SBH) will be reporting results this Monday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Sally Beauty beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $947.1 million, up 1.3% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Sally Beauty’s revenue to be flat year on year at $940.5 million, in line with its flat revenue from the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.46 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. Sally Beauty has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
With Sally Beauty being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for specialty retail stocks. However, investors in the segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.5% on average over the last month. Sally Beauty is up 2.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $17.20 (compared to the current share price of $16.05).
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