Footwear company Caleres (NYSE: CAL) will be reporting earnings this Thursday morning. Here’s what to expect.
Caleres beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $695.1 million, up 8.7% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and full-year EPS guidance beating analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Caleres’s revenue to grow 7.1% year on year, a reversal from the 6.8% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Caleres has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Caleres’s peers in the consumer discretionary - footwear segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Steven Madden delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 18%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.7%, and Deckers reported revenues up 9.6%, topping estimates by 2.9%. Steven Madden traded up 5.2% following the results while Deckers was also up 3.9%.
Read our full analysis of Steven Madden’s results here and Deckers’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary - footwear segment, with share prices up 4.3% on average over the last month. Caleres is up 14.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $15 (compared to the current share price of $14.51).
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