Fiber laser manufacturer IPG Photonics (NASDAQ: IPGP) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow morning. Here’s what you need to know.
IPG Photonics beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $234.3 million, down 21.6% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting IPG Photonics’s revenue to decline 10.7% year on year to $225.1 million, improving from the 27.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.22 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. IPG Photonics has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at IPG Photonics’s peers in the semiconductor manufacturing segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. FormFactor delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.9%, and Amkor reported a revenue decline of 3.2%, topping estimates by 3%. FormFactor traded up 3.1% following the results while Amkor was down 2.7%.
Read our full analysis of FormFactor’s results here and Amkor’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the semiconductor manufacturing segment, with share prices up 18.7% on average over the last month. IPG Photonics is up 21.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $69.17 (compared to the current share price of $63.42).
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