Professional tools and equipment manufacturer Snap-on (NYSE: SNA) will be reporting results this Thursday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
Snap-on beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.31 billion, up 5.2% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Snap-on’s revenue to grow 3.1% year on year, improving from its flat revenue 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Snap-on has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Snap-on’s peers in the industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. GE Aerospace delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 24.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6%, and 3M reported revenues up 5.6%, topping estimates by 1.5%. GE Aerospace traded down 3.2% following the results.
Read our full analysis of GE Aerospace’s results here and 3M’s results here.
Over the past year, investors have repeatedly shifted their focus from one macro narrative to another (AI disruption and AI capex spending to geopolitics, interest rates, and the broader health of the economy). While some of the industrial machinery stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.8% on average over the last month. Snap-on is up 3.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $396.50 (compared to the current share price of $404.13).
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