Assured Guaranty Q4 Earnings Outlook

Assured Guaranty AGO will be releasing its next round of earnings Thursday. For all of the relevant information, here is your guide for today's Q4 earnings announcement.

Earnings and Revenue

Wall Street analysts see Assured Guaranty reporting earnings of 67 cents per share on revenue of $248.35 million.

In the same quarter last year, Assured Guaranty reported EPS of $1.05 on revenue of $236 million. If the company were to report inline earnings when it publishes results Thursday, quarterly profit would be down 36.19 percent. Revenue would be have grown 5.23 percent from the same quarter last year.

The company's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past like this:

Stock Performance

Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 8.71 percent. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are probably unhappy going into this earnings release.

Analyst estimates are adjusted lower for EPS and revenues over the past 90 days. The popular rating by analysts on Assured Guaranty stock is a Neutral. The strength of this rating has maintained conviction over the past 90 days.