Casual restaurant chain Noodles & Company (NASDAQ:NDLS) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow afternoon. Here's what you need to know.
Last quarter Noodles reported revenues of $127.9 million, down 1.2% year on year, beating analyst revenue expectations by 1.4%. It was a very good quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts' earnings estimates.
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This quarter analysts are expecting Noodles's revenue to decline 8.2% year on year to $125.3 million, a further deceleration on the 18.9% year-over-year decrease in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.01 per share.
Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company missed Wall St's revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
Looking at Noodles's peers in the modern fast food segment, some of them have already reported Q4 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Sweetgreen delivered top-line growth of 29.1% year on year, beating analyst estimates by 0.7% and Shake Shack (NYSE:SHAK) reported revenues up 20% year on year, exceeding estimates by 2.2%. Sweetgreen traded up 11.2% on the results, and Shake Shack was up 7.8%.
Read the full analysis of Sweetgreen's and Shake Shack's results on StockStory.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the modern fast food segment, with the stocks up on average 5.2% over the last month. Noodles is up 2% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $4.8, compared to share price of $2.51.