Gas handling company Chart (NYSE:GTLS) will be reporting results tomorrow before market hours. Here’s what to look for.
Chart missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.11 billion, up 9% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ backlog estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Chart’s revenue to grow 5.6% year on year to $1.00 billion, slowing from the 76.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.83 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.
Looking at Chart’s peers in the gas and liquid handling segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Gorman-Rupp delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 2.9%, missing analysts’ expectations by 0.5%, and Graco reported revenues up 7.3%, in line with consensus estimates. Gorman-Rupp traded up 6.1% following the results while Graco was also up 2.1%.
Read our full analysis of Gorman-Rupp’s results here and Graco’s results here.
Investors in the gas and liquid handling segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.6% on average over the last month. Chart is down 7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $210.18 (compared to the current share price of $135.87).
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