Honeywell (HON) Q1 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Industrial conglomerate Honeywell (NASDAQ:HON) will be reporting results tomorrow before market open. Here’s what to look for.

Honeywell beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $10.09 billion, up 6.9% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Honeywell’s revenue to grow 5.3% year on year to $9.59 billion, improving from the 2.7% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.21 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. Honeywell has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.

Looking at Honeywell’s peers in the general industrial machinery segment, some have already reported their Q1 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. GE Aerospace posted flat year-on-year revenue, missing analysts’ expectations by 7.9%, and 3M reported a revenue decline of 1%, topping estimates by 4.6%. GE Aerospace traded up 8.6% following the results while 3M was also up 8%.

Read our full analysis of GE Aerospace’s results here and 3M’s results here .

Investors in the general industrial machinery segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.4% on average over the last month. Honeywell is down 5.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $229.38 (compared to the current share price of $199.38).

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