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Waste management company Casella (NASDAQ:CWST) will be reporting results tomorrow after the bell. Here’s what to expect.
Casella Waste Systems beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $377.2 million, up 30.2% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ operating margin estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Casella Waste Systems’s revenue to grow 17.3% year on year to $413.6 million, slowing from the 19.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.28 per share.
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. Casella Waste Systems has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Casella Waste Systems’s peers in the environmental and facilities services segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Waste Management delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.7%, and Veralto reported revenues up 4.5%, in line with consensus estimates. Veralto traded down 4.6% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Waste Management’s results here and Veralto’s results here.
Investors in the environmental and facilities services segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Casella Waste Systems is up 1.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $115.56 (compared to the current share price of $101.03).
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