Electrical safety company Atkore (NYSE: ATKR) will be reporting results this Tuesday morning. Here’s what to look for.

Atkore beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $752 million, down 4.6% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Atkore’s revenue to decline 1.8% year on year to $649.9 million, improving from the 17.1% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.63 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. Atkore has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.

Looking at Atkore’s peers in the electrical systems segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. LSI posted flat year-on-year revenue, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.9%, and GE Vernova reported revenues up 3.8%, topping estimates by 6.5%. LSI traded up 8.6% following the results while GE Vernova was also up 3.6%.

Read our full analysis of LSI’s results here and GE Vernova’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the electrical systems segment, with share prices up 5.1% on average over the last month. Atkore is up 4.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $65.80 (compared to the current share price of $69.02).

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