Construction and construction materials company Granite Construction (NYSE: GVA) will be reporting results this Thursday before market hours. Here’s what investors should know.
Granite Construction beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $912.5 million, up 30.4% year on year. It was an incredible quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Granite Construction’s revenue to grow 23.8% year on year, improving from the 4% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Granite Construction has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Granite Construction’s peers in the construction and engineering segment, only Comfort Systems has reported results so far. It exceeded analysts’ revenue estimates, delivering year-on-year sales growth of 50.3%. The stock was down 5.3% on the results.
Read our full analysis of Comfort Systems’s earnings results here.Over the past year, investors have repeatedly shifted their focus from one macro narrative to another (AI disruption and AI capex spending to geopolitics, interest rates, and the broader health of the economy). While some of the construction and engineering stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.3% on average over the last month. Granite Construction is down 23.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $169 (compared to the current share price of $121.29).
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