Beer company Molson Coors (NYSE: TAP) will be reporting results this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what to look for.
Molson Coors missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $2.97 billion, down 2.3% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ gross margin estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Molson Coors’s revenue to decline 1% year on year to $2.71 billion, in line with the 2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.15 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. Molson Coors has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Molson Coors’s peers in the beverages, alcohol, and tobacco segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Constellation Brands’s revenues decreased 9.8% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.9%, and Philip Morris reported revenues up 6.8%, in line with consensus estimates. Constellation Brands traded up 5.3% following the results while Philip Morris’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Constellation Brands’s results here and Philip Morris’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the beverages, alcohol, and tobacco segment, with share prices up 3.7% on average over the last month. Molson Coors is up 6.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $51.19 (compared to the current share price of $53.09).
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