Biotechnology company United Therapeutics (NASDAQ:UTHR) will be reporting earnings tomorrow morning. Here’s what to look for.
United Therapeutics met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $735.9 million, up 19.7% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a slight miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting United Therapeutics’s revenue to grow 7.7% year on year to $730 million, slowing from the 33.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $6.54 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. United Therapeutics has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at United Therapeutics’s peers in the biotechnology segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. AbbVie delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.4%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.3%, and Gilead Sciences reported flat revenue, falling short of estimates by 2.1%. AbbVie traded up 6.6% following the results while Gilead Sciences was down 2.7%.
Read our full analysis of AbbVie’s results here and Gilead Sciences’s results here.
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