Sensor manufacturer Sensata Technology (NYSE: ST) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
Sensata Technologies beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $907.7 million, down 8.5% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates but an increase in its inventory levels.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Sensata Technologies’s revenue to decline 12.5% year on year to $880.7 million, a deceleration from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.72 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. Sensata Technologies has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Sensata Technologies’s peers in the analog semiconductors segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Texas Instruments delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.1%, and Impinj reported a revenue decline of 3.3%, topping estimates by 3.7%. Texas Instruments traded up 6.7% following the results while Impinj was also up 16.9%.
Read our full analysis of Texas Instruments’s results here and Impinj’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the analog semiconductors segment, with share prices up 22.5% on average over the last month. Sensata Technologies is up 22.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $31.87 (compared to the current share price of $21.73).
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