Affordable single-family home construction company LGI Homes (NASDAQ: LGIH) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what to expect.
LGI Homes met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $483.5 million, down 19.8% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ backlog estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting LGI Homes’s revenue to decline 40.1% year on year to $390.4 million, a reversal from the 5.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.93 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. LGI Homes has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at LGI Homes’s peers in the home builders segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Taylor Morrison Home’s revenues decreased 1.2% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.4%, and Tri Pointe Homes reported a revenue decline of 25.3%, topping estimates by 15%. Taylor Morrison Home traded down 2.4% following the results while Tri Pointe Homes’s stock price was unchanged.
Read our full analysis of Taylor Morrison Home’s results here and Tri Pointe Homes’s results here.
Investors in the home builders segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. LGI Homes is down 20.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $76.17 (compared to the current share price of $40.01).
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