Earnings Outlook For Hill-Rom Holdings

On Friday, Hill-Rom Holdings HRC will report its last quarter's earnings. Here is Benzinga's take on the company's  release.

Earnings and Revenue

Sell-side analysts expect Hill-Rom Holdings's EPS to be near $1.02 on sales of $705.5 million.

Hill-Rom Holdings reported a profit of 88 cents when it published results during the same quarter last year. Sales in that period totaled $678.9 million. Sales would be up 3.92 percent from the year-ago period. Here's how the company's reported EPS has compared to analyst estimates in the past:

Stock Performance

For a full 12 months, the return has risen by 18.09 percent. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders are probably relaxed going into this earnings release. Long-term shareholders are already enjoying 12-month gains prior to the announcement.

Analyst estimates are adjusted higher for EPS and revenues over the past 90 days. Analysts have been rating Hill-Rom Holdings stock as Neutral. The strength of this rating has risen over the past three months.

Conference Call

The Hill-Rom Holdings's Q2 conference call is scheduled to begin at 8:00 a.m. ET and can be accessed here: https://ir.hill-rom.com/events-and-presentations/default.aspx#section=upcoming