Precision measurement company Mettler-Toledo (NYSE:MTD) will be reporting results this Thursday after market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Mettler-Toledo beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $883.7 million, down 4.6% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ full-year EPS guidance estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Mettler-Toledo’s revenue to be flat year on year at $955.4 million, improving from the 3.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $9.60 per share.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Mettler-Toledo has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Mettler-Toledo’s peers in the research tools & consumables segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Thermo Fisher delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.6%, and Danaher reported revenues up 3.4%, topping estimates by 1.7%. Thermo Fisher traded up 11.3% following the results while Danaher was also up 5.3%.
Read our full analysis of Thermo Fisher’s results here and Danaher’s results here.
Investors in the research tools & consumables segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.8% on average over the last month. Mettler-Toledo is up 7.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $1,271 (compared to the current share price of $1,266).
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