Benzinga | Aug 11, 2020 10:20AM EDT

Preview: CAE's Earnings

CAE (NYSE: CAE) announces its next round of earnings this Wednesday, August 12. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Wednesday's Q1 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Sell-side analysts expect CAE's EPS to be near $0.25 on sales of $611.18 million. In the same quarter last year, CAE posted EPS of $0.18 on sales of $619.20 million. If the company were to post earnings inline with the consensus estimate when it reports Wednesday, EPS would be up 38.89%. CAE's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past like this:

Quarter Q4 2020 Q3 2020 Q2 2019 Q1 2019EPS Estimate 0.25 0.25 0.25 0.25EPS Actual 0.34 0.28 0.28 0.18Revenue Estimate 611.18 M 611.18 M 611.18 M 611.18 MRevenue Actual 729.07 M 711.10 M 896.80 M 619.20 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 35.43%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are probably a little upset going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. CAE is scheduled to hold the call at 13:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: http://www.gowebcasting.com/events/cae/2020/08/12/first-quarter-financial-results-fy2021/play