Media, broadcasting, and digital services company E.W. Scripps (NASDAQ:SSP) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market hours. Here’s what to look for.
E.W. Scripps beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $646.3 million, up 14.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting E.W. Scripps’s revenue to grow 18.1% year on year to $727.4 million, a reversal from the 9.6% 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. E.W. Scripps has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at E.W. Scripps’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. FOX delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 19.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 5%, and AMC Networks reported a revenue decline of 11.7%, falling short of estimates by 2.3%. FOX traded up 5% following the results while AMC Networks was down 15.4%.
Read our full analysis of FOX’s results here and AMC Networks’s results here.
Inflation has progressed towards the Fed’s 2% goal as of late, leading to strong stock market performance. Recent rate cuts and the 2024 Presidential election's conclusion added further sparks to the market, and while some of the consumer discretionary stocks have shown solid performance, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.3% on average over the last month. E.W. Scripps is down 14.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $5.20 (compared to the current share price of $1.71).
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