Coconut water company The Vita Coco Company (NASDAQ: COCO) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday morning. Here’s what to look for.
Vita Coco beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 15.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $182.3 million, up 37.2% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Vita Coco’s revenue to decline 5.4% year on year to $120.4 million, a reversal from the 19.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.12 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. Vita Coco has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 3.8% on average.
Looking at Vita Coco’s peers in the beverages, alcohol, and tobacco segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Constellation Brands’s revenues decreased 9.8% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.9%, and Philip Morris reported revenues up 6.8%, in line with consensus estimates. Constellation Brands traded up 5.3% following the results while Philip Morris’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Constellation Brands’s results here and Philip Morris’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the beverages, alcohol, and tobacco segment, with share prices up 3.7% on average over the last month. Vita Coco is up 4.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $58.78 (compared to the current share price of $56.56).
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