Industrial and commercial distributor Global Industrial (NYSE: GIC) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what to expect.

Global Industrial missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $353.6 million, up 3.3% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Global Industrial’s revenue to grow 7.4% year on year, a reversal from the 5.6% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year.

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. Global Industrial has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Global Industrial’s peers in the maintenance and repair distributors segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. W.W. Grainger delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 4.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.7%, and Transcat reported revenues up 25.6%, topping estimates by 4.1%. W.W. Grainger traded up 9% following the results while Transcat was also up 11.5%.

Read our full analysis of W.W. Grainger’s results here and Transcat’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the maintenance and repair distributors segment, with share prices up 7.1% on average over the last month. Global Industrial is up 5.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $38 (compared to the current share price of $32.05).

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