Benzinga | Sep 2, 2020 10:12AM EDT

Barnes & Noble Education Earnings Preview

Barnes & Noble Education (NYSE: BNED) will be releasing its next round of earnings this Thursday, September 03. For all of the relevant information, here is your guide for Thursday's Q1 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Analysts are expecting Barnes & Noble Education to report a loss of $0.78 per share. Revenue will likely be around $220.53 million, according to the consensus estimate. Barnes & Noble Education's loss in the same period a year ago was $0.63 per share. Quarterly sales came in at $319.66 million. If the company were to post earnings per share in line with the consensus estimate when it reports Thursday, EPS would be down 23.81%. Here's how the company's EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past:

Quarter Q4 2020 Q3 2020 Q2 2019 Q1 2019EPS Estimate -0.48 -0.16 0.95 -0.80EPS Actual -0.58 -0.02 0.78 -0.63Revenue Estimate 220.54 M 506.25 M 773.79 M 327.57 MRevenue Actual 256.89 M 502.29 M 772.23 M 319.66 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 37.57%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are probably down going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Barnes & Noble Education is scheduled to hold the call at 08:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Finvestor.bned.com%2Finvestor-relations%2Fnews-and-events%2Fevents-and-presentations%2Fdefault.aspx&eventid=2589051&sessionid=1&key=684C3787AFC67EFE4331CB64885852BE&regTag=&sourcepage=register