Benzinga | Sep 2, 2020 10:14AM EDT

Signet Jewelers Earnings Preview

On Thursday, September 03, Signet Jewelers (NYSE: SIG) will release its latest earnings report. Decipher the announcement with Benzinga's help.

Earnings and Revenue

Wall Street analysts see Signet Jewelers reporting a loss of $2.07 per share on revenue of $788.51 million. Signet Jewelers reported a per-share profit of $0.51 when it published results during the same quarter last year. Sales in that period totaled $1.36 billion. If the company were to match the consensus estimate when it reports Thursday, EPS would have fallen 505.88%. Here's how the company's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past:

Quarter Q1 2020 Q4 2020 Q3 2019 Q2 2019EPS Estimate -2.87 3.47 -1.09 0.24EPS Actual -1.59 3.67 -0.76 0.51Revenue Estimate 879.49 M 2.12 B 1.14 B 1.34 BRevenue Actual 852.10 M 2.15 B 1.19 B 1.36 B

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 30.14%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders should be content going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Signet Jewelers is scheduled to hold the call at 08:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://78449.choruscall.com/dataconf/productusers/signet/mediaframe/40091/indexr.html