Investment banking firm Moelis & Company (NYSE: MC) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Moelis met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $319.8 million, up 4.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Moelis’s revenue to grow 6.1% year on year, slowing from the 38.1% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Moelis has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Moelis’s peers in the investment banking & brokerage segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Goldman Sachs delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 39.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 23.7%, and Morgan Stanley reported revenues up 27.1%, topping estimates by 8.7%. Goldman Sachs traded up 10.2% following the results while Morgan Stanley was down 4.1%.
Read our full analysis of Goldman Sachs’s results here and Morgan Stanley’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the investment banking & brokerage segment, with share prices up 7.2% on average over the last month. Moelis is up 7.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $71.50 (compared to the current share price of $67.78).
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