Content production and distribution company Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) will be reporting results this Thursday morning. Here’s what investors should know.
Sphere Entertainment beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $313.6 million, up 11% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Sphere Entertainment’s revenue to grow 2.2% year on year, slowing from the 15.2% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Sphere Entertainment has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Sphere Entertainment’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Hilton Grand Vacations delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 50.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 39.5%, and Hasbro reported revenues up 15%, topping estimates by 7.9%. Hilton Grand Vacations traded up 8.2% following the results while Hasbro was also up 15.7%.
Read our full analysis of Hilton Grand Vacations’s results here and Hasbro’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary segment, with share prices up 4.7% on average over the last month. Sphere Entertainment is down 4.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $156.62 (compared to the current share price of $106.01).
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