Life sciences company Avantor (NYSE:AVTR) will be announcing earnings results this Friday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Avantor missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.58 billion, down 5.9% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a slight miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Avantor’s revenue to decline 1.7% year on year to $1.67 billion, in line with the 2.4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.25 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. Avantor has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.
Looking at Avantor’s peers in the research tools & consumables segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Thermo Fisher delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1.6%, and Danaher reported revenues up 3.4%, topping estimates by 1.7%. Thermo Fisher traded up 11.3% following the results while Danaher was also up 5.3%.
Read our full analysis of Thermo Fisher’s results here and Danaher’s results here.
Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the research tools & consumables stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.9% on average over the last month. Avantor is down 1.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $17.15 (compared to the current share price of $13.75).
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