Lancaster Colony (LANC) Q2 Earnings Report Preview: What To Look For

Specialty food company Lancaster Colony (NASDAQ:LANC) will be reporting results tomorrow before market hours. Here's what you need to know.

Last quarter Lancaster Colony reported revenues of $461.6 million, up 8.5% year on year, in line with analyst expectations. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts' EPS estimates.

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This quarter analysts are expecting Lancaster Colony's revenue to grow 3.3% year on year to $493.3 million, slowing down from the 11.4% year-over-year increase in revenue the company had recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.65 per share.

Majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last thirty days, suggesting they are expecting the business to stay the course heading into the earnings. The company only missed Wall St's revenue estimates once over the last two years, and has on average exceeded top line expectations by 2%.

Looking at Lancaster Colony's peers in the packaged food segment, some of them have already reported Q2 earnings results, giving us a hint of what we can expect. Simply Good Foods delivered top-line growth of 2.6% year on year, missing analyst estimates by 0.2% and Lamb Weston reported revenues up 35.7% year on year, exceeding estimates by 1.9%. Simply Good Foods traded up 1.4% on the results, and Lamb Weston was down 1.4%.

Read our full analysis of Simply Good Foods's results here and Lamb Weston's results here.

Stocks have faced challenges as investors prioritize near-term cash flows and while some of the packaged food stocks have fared somewhat better, they have not been spared, with share price declining 2.5% over the last month. Lancaster Colony is up 12.6% during the same time, and is heading into the earnings with analyst price target of $189.8, compared to share price of $187.3.

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