Earnings Outlook For Norwegian Cruise Line

Norwegian Cruise Line NCLH announces its next round of earnings this Friday, August 06. Here is Benzinga's everything-that-matters guide for this Friday's Q2 earnings announcement.

Net Income, Earnings, And Earnings Per Share

Earnings and EPS are useful metrics of profitability. Total earnings also known as net income is equal to total revenue minus total expenses. Dividing net income by the total number of shares outstanding yields EPS.

Earnings And Revenue

Wall Street expects an EPS loss of $-1.99 and sales around $9.44 million. Norwegian Cruise Line EPS in the same period a year ago totaled $2.78. Sales were $16.93 million.

Why Analyst Estimates And Earnings Surprises Are Important

Analysts who cover this company will publish forward-looking estimates of its revenue and EPS each quarter. Averaging together every EPS and revenue prediction that each analyst makes about a company in a quarter yields the "consensus estimates." A company posting earnings or revenue above or below the consensus estimate is known as an "earnings surprise" and may move the stock by a considerable margin.

The analyst consensus estimate would represent a 28.42% increase in the company's earnings. Sales would be down 44.24% from the same quarter last year. Here is how the company's reported EPS has compared to analyst estimates in the past:

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Stock Performance

Shares of Norwegian Cruise Line were trading at $22.6 as of August 04. Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 65.98%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders should be content going into this earnings release.

Do not be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Norwegian Cruise Line is scheduled to hold the call at 10:00:00 ET and can be accessed here.