Electrical supply company WESCO (NYSE: WCC) will be reporting earnings this Thursday morning. Here’s what investors should know.
WESCO beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $6.08 billion, up 13.8% year on year. It was a stunning quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting WESCO’s revenue to grow 8.9% year on year, improving from the 7.7% 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. WESCO rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.
Looking at WESCO’s peers in the industrial distributors segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. MSC Industrial delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.3%, and Fastenal reported revenues up 14.7%, topping estimates by 1.9%. MSC Industrial traded up 3.2% following the results while Fastenal was down 3.6%.
Read our full analysis of MSC Industrial’s results here and Fastenal’s 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 industrial distributors 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. WESCO is down 3.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $386.09 (compared to the current share price of $330.94).
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