Last Friday, investors got their first look at how the country’s biggest banks fared in the fourth quarter of 2021. Judging by their reactions, Wells Fargo deserved a share price boost and JPMorgan deserved to get punished. Citigroup and BlackRock closed lower on Friday, but they avoided the punishment JPMorgan received.
Following Monday’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Goldman Sachs and Truist reported results before markets opened Tuesday. Truist beat on both the top and bottom lines, while Goldman missed the consensus earnings estimate.
More financial sector results are coming up this Wednesday and the rest of this week, as well as reports from consumer product, industrial, and transportation firms. Before markets open Wednesday, we will hear results from Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Procter & Gamble and UnitedHealth. It will be a busy week.
We also have previewed four companies set to report after markets close on Wednesday: Alcoa, Discover Financial, Kinder Morgan and United Airlines.
Here are three earnings reports due out before markets open on Thursday.
American Airlines
Over the past 12 months, American Airlines Group Inc. (NASDAQ: AAL) has been the top-performing U.S. airline, and the only one to have a double-digit share price gain. Last week the company said its fourth-quarter revenue would be 19% below its 2019 revenue for the same quarter. That represents an improvement of one percentage point over American’s November estimate. More bad weather and a possible interruption of some flights due to safety concerns resulting from new 5G bandwidth rules could be near-term issues for American and other carriers.
Analysts are cautious on American. Of 22 brokerages covering the stock, 11 have a Hold rating and six more have Sell or Strong Sell ratings. At a recent price of around $18.50 a share, the implied upside based on a median price target of $20 is about 8.1%. At the high target of $28, the upside potential is more than 51%.
Fourth-quarter revenue is forecast at $9.38 billion, which would be up 4.6% sequentially and 133% higher year over year. American is expected to post a loss per share of $1.48, worse than the $0.95 loss per share in the prior quarter and much improved over last year’s third-quarter loss of $3.86 per share. For the full year, the company is expected to post a loss of $8.36 compared to the year-ago loss of $19.66 on revenue of $29.83 billion, up 72%.
The stock trades at 7.1 times estimated 2023 earnings of $2.62. The airline is expected to post a loss of $0.35 per share in fiscal 2022. The stock’s 52-week range is $15.02 to $26.09. American does not pay a dividend. The stock’s total return for the past 12 months was 16.9%.
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Baker Hughes
Over the past 12 months, shares of oilfield services firm Baker Hughes Co. (NASDAQ: BKR) have added about 23%. Since posting a 52-week low in mid-April, however, the shares are up 42%, including a couple of big dips. Rising oil prices have begun to breathe some life into the drilling business, but new drilling will be constrained by promises to return more cash to shareholders, rising interest rates and a determination by producers not to topple the golden calf of higher prices.
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