Telecommunications and cable services provider Optimum Communications (NYSE: OPTU) will be announcing earnings results this Friday before market open. Here’s what to look for.

Optimum Communications missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.02 billion, down 5.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and EBITDA in line with analysts’ estimates. It reported 3.71 million broadband subscribers, down 5.4% year on year.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Optimum Communications’s revenue to decline 5.5% year on year, in line with the 5.4% 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. Optimum Communications has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Optimum Communications’s peers in the consumer discretionary - wireless, cable and satellite segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AT&T delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 5.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.1%, and Comcast reported flat revenue, in line with consensus estimates. AT&T traded down 2.9% following the results while Comcast was up 2.8%.

Read our full analysis of AT&T’s results here and Comcast’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary - wireless, cable and satellite segment, with share prices up 8% on average over the last month. Optimum Communications is down 29.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $1.05 (compared to the current share price of $0.68).

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