B&G Foods (BGS) Q4 Earnings: What To Expect
Packaged foods company B&G Foods (NYSE:BGS) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after market close. Here's what to look for.
Last quarter B&G Foods reported revenues of $502.7 million, down 4.9% year on year, missing analyst expectations by 0.5%. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with optimistic earnings guidance for the full year. On the other hand, its full-year revenue guidance missed analysts' expectations.
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This quarter analysts are expecting B&G Foods's revenue to decline 8.3% year on year to $571.7 million, a deceleration on the 9% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.30 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company missed Wall St's revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at B&G Foods's peers in the packaged food segment, some of them have already reported Q4 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Kellanova delivered top-line growth of 0.3% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 3.1% and Mondelez reported revenues up 8.7% year on year, exceeding estimates by 0.2%. Kellanova traded up 2.1% on the results, and Mondelez was down 3.1%.
Read our full analysis of Kellanova's results here and Mondelez's results here.
Investors in the packaged food segment have had steady hands going into the earnings, with the stocks down on average 0.4% over the last month. B&G Foods is down 8.4% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $9.6, compared to share price of $9.55.
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