Multinational media and entertainment corporation Paramount (NASDAQ: PSKY) will be announcing earnings results this Monday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Paramount met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $8.15 billion, down 5.1% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Paramount’s revenue to grow 1.1% year on year, a reversal from the 6.7% 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. Paramount has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Paramount’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Rush Street Interactive delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 41.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 11.3%, and Monarch reported revenues up 8.9%, topping estimates by 5.2%. Rush Street Interactive traded up 16.6% following the results while Monarch was also up 15.9%.
Read our full analysis of Rush Street Interactive’s results here and Monarch’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary segment, with share prices up 7% on average over the last month. Paramount is up 12.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $13.13 (compared to the current share price of $11.06).
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