Maximus Earnings: What To Look For From MMS

Government services provider Maximus (NYSE:MMS) will be reporting results this Thursday morning. Here’s what investors should know.

Maximus missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.31 billion, down 4.1% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates but full-year revenue guidance slightly missing analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, the market is expecting Maximus’s revenue to decline 1.6% year on year, a reversal from the 2.5% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. Maximus has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Maximus’s peers in the government & technical consulting segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Booz Allen Hamilton’s revenues decreased 4.2% year on year, missing analysts’ expectations by 0.5%, and UL Solutions reported revenues up 5.2%, in line with consensus estimates. Booz Allen Hamilton traded up 8.8% following the results.

Read our full analysis of Booz Allen Hamilton’s results here and UL Solutions’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the government & technical consulting segment, with share prices up 7.8% on average over the last month. Maximus is up 12.9% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $105 (compared to the current share price of $63.30).

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