Aerospace and defense company Mercury Systems (NASDAQ:MRCY) will be reporting results tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Mercury Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 12.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $204.4 million, up 13% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Mercury Systems’s revenue to decline 8.8% year on year to $180 million, improving from the 14% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.04 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. Mercury Systems has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at Mercury Systems’s peers in the defense contractors segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. CACI delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 14.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and RTX reported revenues up 8.5%, topping estimates by 5.8%. CACI traded down 9.3% following the results while RTX’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of CACI’s results here and RTX’s results here.
Investors in the defense contractors segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Mercury Systems is down 2.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $35.75 (compared to the current share price of $40.57).
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