What To Expect From E.W. Scripps's (SSP) Q4 Earnings

Media, broadcasting, and digital services company E.W. Scripps (NASDAQ:SSP) will be reporting results this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what to look for.

E.W. Scripps met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $525.9 million, down 18.6% year on year. It was a satisfactory quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

This quarter, the market is expecting E.W. Scripps’s revenue to decline 24.2% year on year, a reversal from the 18.3% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. E.W. Scripps has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at E.W. Scripps’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. FOX delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.8%, and AMC Networks reported flat revenue, topping estimates by 1.6%. FOX traded down 6.2% following the results while AMC Networks was also down 2.3%.

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