Benzinga | Aug 4, 2020 12:00PM EDT

Earnings Preview: Fiesta Restaurant Gr

Fiesta Restaurant Gr (NASDAQ:FRGI) announces its next round of earnings this Wednesday, August 05. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Wednesday's Q2 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Wall Street expects an EPS loss of $0.29 and sales around $121.36 million. In the same quarter last year, Fiesta Restaurant Gr reported earnings per share of $0.210 on sales of $171.38 million. The analyst consensus estimate would represent a 238.1% decrease in the company's earnings. 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 0.14 0.04 0.11 0.23EPS Actual -0.11 -0.04 0.01 0.21Revenue Estimate 153.83 M 166.41 M 164.83 M 172.73 MRevenue Actual 146.70 M 159.46 M 164.25 M 171.38 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 34.91%. 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. Fiesta Restaurant Gr is scheduled to hold the call at 16:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.frgi.com%2Finvestor-relations%2Fdefault.aspx&eventid=2393520&sessionid=1&key=D2667E9886A1C9D333640E98AFD68DD7&regTag=&sourcepage=register