HVAC company Trane (NYSE:TT) will be reporting results tomorrow before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Trane Technologies beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $5.44 billion, up 11.4% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Trane Technologies’s revenue to grow 8.1% year on year to $4.78 billion, in line with the 8.6% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.54 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. Trane Technologies has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.
Looking at Trane Technologies’s peers in the building products segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Lennox delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 16.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 8.9%, and Insteel reported revenues up 6.6%, topping estimates by 10.4%. Insteel traded up 8.7% following the results.
Read our full analysis of Lennox’s results here and Insteel’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the building products segment, with share prices up 3.5% on average over the last month. Trane Technologies’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $414.63 (compared to the current share price of $364).
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