Sensor manufacturer Sensata Technology (NYSE: ST) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday afternoon. Here’s what to expect.
Sensata Technologies beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $917.9 million, up 1.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but revenue guidance for next quarter meeting analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Sensata Technologies’s revenue to grow 1.8% year on year, a reversal from the 9.5% 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. Sensata Technologies has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Sensata Technologies’s peers in the semiconductors segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Texas Instruments delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 18.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.6%, and Micron reported revenues up 196%, topping estimates by 20.1%. Texas Instruments traded up 19.6% following the results while Micron was down 3.8%.
Read our full analysis of Texas Instruments’s results here and Micron’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the semiconductors segment, with share prices up 50.4% on average over the last month. Sensata Technologies is up 25.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $43.17 (compared to the current share price of $41.93).
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