H&R Block Q3 Earnings Preview

H&R Block HRB will be releasing its next round of earnings Tuesday. For all of the relevant information, here is your guide for today's Q3 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Sell-side analysts are expecting H&R Block's loss per share to be near $1.29 on sales of $458.75 million.

H&R Block reported a per-share loss of 49 cents when it published results during the same quarter last year. Sales in that period totaled $451.8 million. Sales would be up 1.52 percent from the same quarter last year.

H&R Block's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past like this:

Quarter Q2 2018 Q1 2018 Q4 2017 Q3 2017
EPS Estimate -0.72 -0.62 3.53 -0.5
EPS Actual -0.71 -0.62 3.76 -0.49

 

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 19.56 percent. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders should be satisfied going into this earnings release.

Analyst estimates are adjusted lower for EPS and revenues over the past 90 days. Analysts seem to have settled on a Neutral rating with H&R Block. The strength of this rating has maintained conviction over the past three months.

Conference Call

H&R Block is scheduled to hold a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET and it can be accessed here.

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