Benzinga | Aug 31, 2020 10:12AM EDT

A Preview Of H&R Block's Earnings

On Tuesday, September 01, H&R Block (NYSE:HRB) will release its latest earnings report. Benzinga's outlook for H&R Block is included in the following report.

Earnings and Revenue

Sell-side analysts expect H&R Block's EPS to be near $0.49 on sales of $617.03 million. In the same quarter last year, H&R Block reported a loss per share of $0.72 on sales of $150.36 million. If the company were to report in-line earnings when it publishes results Tuesday, quarterly profit would be up 168.06%. H&R Block's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past like this:

Quarter Q4 2020 Q3 2020 Q2 2019 Q1 2019EPS Estimate 2.61 -0.55 -0.92 -0.75EPS Actual 3.01 -0.59 -0.93 -0.72Revenue Estimate 1.74 B 485.55 M 161.06 M 151.35 MRevenue Actual 1.81 B 519.21 M 160.80 M 150.36 M

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 38.85%. 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. H&R Block is scheduled to hold the call at 16:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/n4hanpnz