Semi trailers and liquid transportation container manufacturer Wabash (NYSE: WNC) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday before market open. Here’s what you need to know.
Wabash missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $303.2 million, down 20.4% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Wabash’s revenue to decline 12.2% year on year, improving from the 16.7% decrease 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. Wabash has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Wabash’s peers in the heavy machinery segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Wabtec delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 17.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Greenbrier reported a revenue decline of 31.6%, falling short of estimates by 5.9%. Wabtec traded up 13.1% following the results while Greenbrier’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Wabtec’s results here and Greenbrier’s results here.
Over the last year or so, investors' attention has moved from one major market theme to the next, spanning AI disruption and surging infrastructure investment to geopolitical tensions, interest rates, and the health of the broader economy. While some of the heavy machinery stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.3% on average over the last month. Wabash is down 3.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $22.50 (compared to the current share price of $13.22).
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