HVAC company Trane (NYSE:TT) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday before market open. Here’s what to look for.
Trane Technologies beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.69 billion, up 11.2% year on year. It was an exceptional quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Trane Technologies’s revenue to grow 8.6% year on year to $5.76 billion, slowing from the 12.8% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $3.79 per share.
The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Trane Technologies has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Trane Technologies’s peers in the building products segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Lennox delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.5%, and A. O. Smith reported a revenue decline of 1.3%, topping estimates by 1.2%. Lennox traded up 7.2% following the results while A. O. Smith was also up 1%.
Read our full analysis of Lennox’s results here and A. O. Smith’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the building products segment, with share prices up 6.5% on average over the last month. Trane Technologies is up 2.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $437.07 (compared to the current share price of $448.92).
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