
Personal care company Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE: EPC) will be reporting earnings this Monday before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.
Edgewell Personal Care beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 0.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $537.2 million, up 3.8% year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Edgewell Personal Care’s revenue to be flat year on year at $478 million, improving from the 2.1% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.16 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. Edgewell Personal Care has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.
Looking at Edgewell Personal Care’s peers in the personal care segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. e.l.f. Beauty delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 37.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.4%, and Estée Lauder reported revenues up 5.6%, in line with consensus estimates. e.l.f. Beauty traded down 9.4% following the results while Estée Lauder was also down 16.8%.
Read our full analysis of e.l.f. Beauty’s results here and Estée Lauder’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the personal care segment, with share prices up 8% on average over the last month. Edgewell Personal Care is up 14% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $22.33 (compared to the current share price of $20.76).
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