Oil and gas producer Kosmos Energy (NYSE:KOS) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what you need to know.
Kosmos Energy missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $294.9 million, down 25.8% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA and EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Kosmos Energy’s revenue to grow 40.1% year on year, a reversal from the 30.7% 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 to stay the course heading into earnings. Kosmos Energy has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at Kosmos Energy’s peers in the upstream & integrated segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Solaris Energy Infrastructure delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 55.3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.8%, and Weatherford reported a revenue decline of 3.4%, topping estimates by 0.6%. Solaris Energy Infrastructure traded up 5.4% following the results while Weatherford was also up 1.4%.
Read our full analysis of Solaris Energy Infrastructure’s results here and Weatherford’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the upstream & integrated segment, with share prices up 4.1% on average over the last month. Kosmos Energy is up 2.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $2.79 (compared to the current share price of $3.19).
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