Benzinga | Aug 18, 2020 10:43AM EDT

Earnings Preview for L Brands

L Brands (NYSE: LB) releases its next round of earnings this Wednesday, August 19. Here's Benzinga's essential guide to L Brands's Q2 earnings report.

Earnings and Revenue

Wall Street analysts see L Brands reporting a loss of $0.43 per share on revenue of $2.21 billion. L Brands earnings in the same period a year ago was $0.24 per share. Quarterly sales came in at $2.90 billion. If the company were to match the consensus estimate, earnings per share would be down 279.17%. Sales would have fallen 23.85% from the same quarter last year. 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 -0.66 1.83 0.02 0.19EPS Actual -0.99 1.88 0.02 0.24Revenue Estimate 1.82 B 4.66 B 2.69 B 2.95 BRevenue Actual 1.65 B 4.71 B 2.68 B 2.90 B

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 38.34%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders can be satisfied going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. L Brands is scheduled to hold the call at 09:00:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://edge.media-server.com/mmc/p/zky4kpy8