Automotive services company Driven Brands (NASDAQ: DRVN) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Driven Brands missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $484.3 million, down 3.6% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Driven Brands’s revenue to decline 16.7% year on year, a reversal from the 1.9% increase 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.
Looking at Driven Brands’s peers in the industrial & environmental services segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tetra Tech’s revenues decreased 13.4% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.4%, and Pitney Bowes reported a revenue decline of 7.5%, falling short of estimates by 1.2%. Tetra Tech traded up 3% following the results while Pitney Bowes was also up 8.6%.
Read our full analysis of Tetra Tech’s results here and Pitney Bowes’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the industrial & environmental services stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 8.9% on average over the last month. Driven Brands is up 4.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $20.92 (compared to the current share price of $16.75).
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