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Interpublic Group IPG is scheduled to release its first-quarter 2025 results on April 24, before market open.
IPG’s Zacks Consensus Estimate missed in one of the trailing four quarters and met in the remaining three, with an average negative surprise of 0.9%.
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Interpublic Group’s Q1 Expectations
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenues is pegged at $2 billion, indicating an 8.3% decrease from the year-ago quarter’s actual. The consensus estimate for earnings per share is pegged at 30 cents, suggesting a 16.7% fall from the year-ago quarter’s actual. (Find the latest EPS estimates and surprises on Zacks Earnings Calendar.)
Our projection for first-quarter 2025 revenues from Media, Data & Engagement Solutions (MD&E) is pegged at $927.5 million, indicating a 4.7% decline from the year-ago quarter’s actual. The detriment to this segment’s revenues is likely to have been caused by the decrease at McCann Relationship Marketing.
Our estimate for Integrated Advertising & Creativity Led Solutions’ (IA&C) revenues is pegged at $850 million, implying an 11.8% fall from that reported in the first quarter of 2024. We predict revenues of $544.9 million from Specialized Communications Experiential Solutions (SC&E), implying a decline of 2.5% from the year-ago quarter’s actual.
EBITA for the MD&E is expected to jump 54.8% year over year to $144.3 million. We estimate the IA&C segment’s EBITA to decline 3% to $104.6 million, while the same is anticipated to increase 10.3% to $48.4 million for the SC&E segment. For the Corporate and Other segment, EBITA is likely to be a negative $27.6 million compared with the negative $40.1 million reported in the year-ago quarter.
What Our Model Says About IPG
Our proven model does not conclusively predict an earnings beat for Interpublic Group this time around. The combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 (Buy) or 3 (Hold) increases the odds of an earnings beat. But that is not the case here. You can uncover the best stocks before they are reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Interpublic Group has an Earnings ESP of 0.00% and a Zacks Rank of 3.
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