Infrastructure construction company Primoris (NYSE: PRIM) will be reporting results this Monday after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Primoris beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.18 billion, up 32.1% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Primoris’s revenue to grow 3.2% year on year, slowing from the 14.9% 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 to stay the course heading into earnings. Primoris rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.
Looking at Primoris’s peers in the construction and maintenance services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Comfort Systems delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 41.7%, beating analysts’ expectations by 13%, and Construction Partners reported revenues up 44.1%, topping estimates by 10.5%. Comfort Systems traded up 6% following the results while Construction Partners was also up 10.7%.
Read our full analysis of Comfort Systems’s results here and Construction Partners’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the construction and maintenance services segment, with share prices up 6.7% on average over the last month. Primoris is up 14.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $152.86 (compared to the current share price of $170).
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