Smart home company SmartRent (NYSE:SMRT) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday morning. Here’s what investors should know.
SmartRent met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $36.47 million, up 3.1% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with EPS in line with analysts’ estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting SmartRent’s revenue to decline 7.7% year on year, improving from the 18.1% 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. SmartRent has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at SmartRent’s peers in the electrical equipment segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AMETEK delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and LSI reported revenues up 13.6%, topping estimates by 9%. AMETEK traded up 1.1% following the results while LSI was also up 6.7%.
Read our full analysis of AMETEK’s results here and LSI’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the electrical equipment segment, with share prices up 7.6% on average over the last month. SmartRent is down 6.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $2 (compared to the current share price of $1.40).
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