Personal wellness company WeightWatchers (NASDAQ: WW) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what to look for.
WeightWatchers beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $168.3 million, down 9.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting WeightWatchers’s revenue to decline 15.9% year on year, a further deceleration from the 6.4% 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. WeightWatchers has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
Looking at WeightWatchers’s peers in the consumer discretionary - specialized consumer services segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Service International delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.6%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.8%, and ADT reported revenues up 2%, topping estimates by 1.8%. Service International’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile ADT was up 3.2%.
Read our full analysis of Service International’s results here and ADT’s results here.
Investors in the consumer discretionary - specialized consumer services segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $28.33 (compared to the current share price of $16.05).
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