
Auto parts and accessories retailer AutoZone (NYSE: AZO) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market open. Here’s what to expect.
AutoZone met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.63 billion, up 8.2% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting AutoZone’s revenue to grow 9.1% year on year, improving from the 2.4% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. AutoZone has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.
With AutoZone being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for automotive and marine retail stocks. However, the whole sector has been hit hard over the last month as stocks in AutoZone’s peer group are down 2.5% on average. AutoZone’s stock price was unchanged during the same time .
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