Packaged foods company Kraft Heinz (NASDAQ: KHC) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Kraft Heinz met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $6.35 billion, down 3.4% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with full-year EPS guidance missing analysts’ expectations significantly and a significant miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Kraft Heinz’s revenue to decline 1.7% year on year, improving from the 6.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.
Looking at Kraft Heinz’s peers in the shelf-stable food segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Hershey delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 10.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.4%, and Lamb Weston reported revenues up 2.9%, topping estimates by 5.2%. Hershey traded down 3.6% following the results while Lamb Weston was also down 6.9%.
Read our full analysis of Hershey’s results here and Lamb Weston’s results here.
Investors in the shelf-stable food segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.3% on average over the last month. Kraft Heinz is down 4.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $23.97 (compared to the current share price of $22.41).
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