Benzinga | Aug 18, 2020 10:47AM EDT

Earnings Preview: GSE Systems

GSE Systems (NASDAQ: GVP) announces its next round of earnings this Wednesday, August 19. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Wednesday's Q2 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Wall Street analysts see GSE Systems reporting a loss of $0.03 per share on revenue of $18.40 million. In the same quarter last year, GSE Systems reported EPS of $0.05 on revenue of $23.46 million. Analysts estimate would represent a 160.0% decrease in the company's earnings per share. Sales would be down 21.56% from the same quarter last year. The company's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past like this:

Quarter Q1 2020 Q4 2020 Q3 2019 Q2 2019EPS Estimate -0.02 -0.01 0.03 0.02EPS Actual -0.04 0.06 0.03 0.05Revenue Estimate 18.40 M 20.40 M 22.00 M 18.60 MRevenue Actual 17.70 M 17.29 M 20.03 M 23.46 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 46.33%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are probably upset going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. GSE Systems is scheduled to hold the call at 16:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://78449.themediaframe.com/dataconf/productusers/gvp/mediaframe/40287/indexl.html