Benzinga | Sep 8, 2020 10:09AM EDT

Preview: AstroNova's Earnings

AstroNova (NASDAQ:ALOT) releases its next round of earnings this Wednesday, September 09. Get the latest predictions in Benzinga's essential guide to the company's Q2 earnings report.

Earnings and Revenue

Sell-side analysts are expecting AstroNova's loss per share to be near $0.06 on sales of $27.92 million. In the same quarter last year, AstroNova reported EPS of $0.13 on revenue of $33.47 million. If the company were to match the consensus estimate, earnings per share would be down 146.15%. 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 -0.19 0.03 0.17 0.20EPS Actual 0.06 -0.19 0.06 0.13Revenue Estimate 29.75 M 33.00 M 33.80 M 36.19 MRevenue Actual 30.92 M 30.48 M 33.32 M 33.47 M

Stock Performance

Over the past 52-week period, shares of AstroNova have declined 58.14%. 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. AstroNova is scheduled to hold the call at 09:00:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Finvestors.astronovainc.com%2Finvestors%2Finvestors%2Fdefault.aspx&eventid=2588690&sessionid=1&key=71DDA66A2B3704AC6BFCCE686F3D37AF&regTag=&sourcepage=register