Commercial banking company Preferred Bank (NASDAQ:PFBC) will be announcing earnings results this Monday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
Preferred Bank missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 5.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $66.66 million, down 6.9% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ net interest income estimates and a miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Preferred Bank’s revenue to grow 1.9% year on year to $70.82 million, a reversal from the 9% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.43 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. Preferred Bank has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Preferred Bank’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Texas Capital Bank delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 15.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.7%, and Nicolet Bankshares reported revenues up 12.7%, topping estimates by 4.4%. Texas Capital Bank traded up 4.8% following the results while Nicolet Bankshares was also up 7.8%.
Read our full analysis of Texas Capital Bank’s results here and Nicolet Bankshares’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the regional banks segment, with share prices up 10.3% on average over the last month. Preferred Bank is up 13.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $93.75 (compared to the current share price of $92.61).
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