Financial services company Equitable Holdings (NYSE: EQH) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
Equitable Holdings missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $3.80 billion, up 5.1% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Equitable Holdings’s revenue to decline 4.1% year on year to $3.62 billion, a reversal from the 9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.62 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.
Looking at Equitable Holdings’s peers in the life insurance segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Prudential’s revenues decreased 16.7% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 14.4%, and Lincoln Financial Group reported revenues up 3.8%, falling short of estimates by 0.7%. Prudential traded up 1.8% following the results while Lincoln Financial Group was also up 4.8%.
Read our full analysis of Prudential’s results here and Lincoln Financial Group’s results here.
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