Electronic manufacturing services company Plexus (NASDAQ: PLXS) will be reporting results this Wednesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Plexus beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.30 billion, up 28.1% year on year. It was a stunning quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EPS guidance for next quarter estimates and revenue guidance for next quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Plexus’s revenue to grow 28.5% year on year, improving from its flat revenue 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. Plexus has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Plexus’s peers in the electronic components & manufacturing segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Knowles delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.9%, and Jabil reported revenues up 28.6%, topping estimates by 9.8%. Knowles traded down 3.6% following the results while Jabil was also down 6%.
Read our full analysis of Knowles’s results here and Jabil’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the electronic components & manufacturing segment, with share prices up 3.9% on average over the last month. Plexus is down 16.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $304.60 (compared to the current share price of $220.08).
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