Heritage Financial (NASDAQ:HFWA) is set to give its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, 2024-01-25. Here's what investors need to know before the announcement.

Analysts estimate that Heritage Financial will report an earnings per share (EPS) of $0.45.

Heritage Financial bulls will hope to hear the company announce they've not only beaten that estimate, but also to provide positive guidance, or forecasted growth, for the next quarter.

New investors should note that it is sometimes not an earnings beat or miss that most affects the price of a stock, but the guidance (or forecast).

Historical Earnings Performance

Last quarter the company beat EPS by $0.08, which was followed by a 3.82% drop in the share price the next day.

Here's a look at Heritage Financial's past performance and the resulting price change:

Stock Performance

Shares of Heritage Financial were trading at $20.61 as of January 23. Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 25.54%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are likely upset going into this earnings release.

To track all earnings releases for Heritage Financial visit their earnings calendar on our site.

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