Industrial manufacturing company Ingersoll Rand (NYSE:IR) will be reporting results this Thursday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.
Ingersoll Rand beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.89 billion, up 4.6% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Ingersoll Rand’s revenue to grow 4.6% year on year to $1.95 billion, slowing from the 7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.86 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. Ingersoll Rand has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Ingersoll Rand’s peers in the gas and liquid handling segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Flowserve delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.6%, missing analysts’ expectations by 2.7%, and Gorman-Rupp reported revenues up 2.8%, falling short of estimates by 1%. Gorman-Rupp traded down 5.6% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Flowserve’s results here and Gorman-Rupp’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the gas and liquid handling segment, with share prices up 3.1% on average over the last month. Ingersoll Rand is down 4.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $91.13 (compared to the current share price of $78.85).
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