Travel technology company Sabre (NASDAQ:SABR) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before the bell. Here’s what to look for.
Sabre missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $764.7 million, up 3.3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates and a miss of analysts’ airline bookings estimates. It reported 92.8 million airline bookings, up 3.7% year on year.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Sabre’s revenue to grow 4.2% year on year to $715.7 million, slowing from the 8.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.10 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. Sabre has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Sabre’s peers in the travel and vacation providers segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. United Airlines delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 7.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.1%, and Royal Caribbean reported revenues up 12.9%, in line with consensus estimates. United Airlines traded down 2.3% following the results while Royal Caribbean was up 13.6%.
Read our full analysis of United Airlines’s results here and Royal Caribbean’s results here.
Investors in the travel and vacation providers segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.6% on average over the last month. Sabre is up 3.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $4.41 (compared to the current share price of $3.51).
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