Vehicle manufacturer Shyft (NASDAQ:SHYF) will be reporting results tomorrow morning. Here’s what to look for.
Shyft missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 6.3% last quarter, reporting revenues of $194.1 million, down 3.6% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ Specialty Vehicles revenue estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Shyft’s revenue to grow 4% year on year to $210.4 million, a reversal from the 33% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.13 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. Shyft has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Shyft’s peers in the heavy transportation equipment segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Cummins’s revenues decreased 1.1% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.7%, and Oshkosh reported revenues up 6.3%, topping estimates by 8.6%. Cummins traded up 6.2% following the results while Oshkosh was also up 21.6%.
Read our full analysis of Cummins’s results here and Oshkosh’s results here.
Stocks generally had a good 2024. The Fed fought high inflation and won without sending the economy into a recession, otherwise lovingly known as a soft landing. The US Central Bank is now cutting rates. That, plus the election of Donald Trump in November 2024, sent markets even higher, and while some of the heavy transportation equipment stocks have shown solid performance, the group has generally underpeformed, with share prices down 4.3% on average over the last month. Shyft is down 3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $15 (compared to the current share price of $12.05).
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