Regional banking company Home Bancshares (NYSE:HOMB) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Home Bancshares beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $271 million, up 6.5% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates but a narrow beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Home Bancshares’s revenue to grow 4% year on year to $268.4 million, slowing from the 5.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.60 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. Home Bancshares has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 1.9% on average.
With Home Bancshares being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for banks stocks. However, the segment has faced declining investor sentiment as Home Bancshares’s peer group is down 4.3% on average over the last month. Home Bancshares is down 7.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $33.38 (compared to the current share price of $27.15).
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