Regional banking company Regions Financial (NYSE:RF) will be announcing earnings results this Friday morning. Here’s what investors should know.
Regions Financial beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.95 billion, up 3.9% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a narrow beat of analysts’ tangible book value per share estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ net interest income estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Regions Financial’s revenue to grow 4.2% year on year to $1.94 billion, improving from the 1.8% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.61 per share.
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. Regions Financial has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates twice over the last two years.
Looking at Regions Financial’s peers in the banks segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. United Community Banks posted flat year-on-year revenue, beating analysts’ expectations by 14,738%, and Home Bancshares reported revenues up 7.6%, topping estimates by 2.9%. United Community Banks traded up 900% following the results.
Read our full analysis of United Community Banks’s results here and Home Bancshares’s results here.
Investors in the banks segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Regions Financial is up 2.8% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $30.28 (compared to the current share price of $28.26).
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