Freight transportation and logistics provider Saia (NASDAQ: SAIA) will be reporting earnings this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Saia beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $790 million, flat year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Saia’s revenue to be flat year on year, slowing from the 4.3% 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. Saia has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Saia’s peers in the ground transportation segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Heartland Express’s revenues decreased 19.7% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.6%, and Covenant Logistics reported revenues up 14%, topping estimates by 6.9%. Heartland Express traded up 12.5% following the results while Covenant Logistics was also up 9.1%.
Read our full analysis of Heartland Express’s results here and Covenant Logistics’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the ground transportation segment, with share prices up 14.1% on average over the last month. Saia is up 32% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $397.05 (compared to the current share price of $443.43).
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