Multinational media and entertainment corporation Paramount (NASDAQ: PSKY) will be reporting results this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Paramount beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $7.35 billion, up 2.2% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Paramount’s revenue to be flat year on year, improving from the 2.7% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Paramount has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Paramount’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AMC Networks’s revenues decreased 8.8% year on year, missing analysts’ expectations by 1.2%, and AMC Entertainment reported revenues up 14.2%, topping estimates by 8.7%. AMC Networks traded up 9.2% following the results while AMC Entertainment was also up 13.4%.
Read our full analysis of AMC Networks’s results here and AMC Entertainment’s results here.
Over the last year or so, investors' attention has moved from one major market theme to the next, spanning AI disruption and surging infrastructure investment to geopolitical tensions, interest rates, and the health of the broader economy. While some of the consumer discretionary stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.4% on average over the last month. Paramount is down 21.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $11.77 (compared to the current share price of $7.95).
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