Electronic components manufacturer CTS Corporation (NYSE: CTS) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what to expect.

CTS beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $143 million, up 8% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ revenue estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting CTS’s revenue to grow 6.6% year on year to $135.9 million, improving from the 2.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.60 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. CTS has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.

Looking at CTS’s peers in the electronic components & manufacturing segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Coherent delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 17.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.9%, and Knowles reported revenues up 13.8%, topping estimates by 3.8%. Coherent’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Knowles was up 9.1%.

Read our full analysis of Coherent’s results here and Knowles’s results here.

The outlook for 2025 remains clouded by potential trade policy changes and corporate tax discussions, which could impact business confidence and growth. While some of the electronic components & manufacturing stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.2% on average over the last month. CTS is up 20.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $52 (compared to the current share price of $55.76).

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