Telecommunications and media company Comcast (NASDAQ: CMCSA) will be reporting earnings this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Comcast beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $29.57 billion, up 4.7% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates. It reported 28.49 million domestic broadband customers, down 9.7% year on year.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Comcast’s revenue to be flat year on year, improving from the 2.9% decrease 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Comcast has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Comcast’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Hasbro delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 15%, beating analysts’ expectations by 7.9%, and Levi's reported revenues up 4.3%, in line with consensus estimates. Levi's traded down 2.4% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Hasbro’s results here and Levi’s results here.
Investors in the consumer discretionary segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Comcast is down 2.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $28.63 (compared to the current share price of $22.27).
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