Casual restaurant chain Noodles & Company (NASDAQ: NDLS) will be reporting earnings this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what to look for.

Noodles missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.9% last quarter, reporting revenues of $126.4 million, flat year on year. It was a disappointing quarter for the company, with full-year revenue guidance missing analysts’ expectations significantly and a significant miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Noodles’s revenue to decline 2.4% year on year to $119.8 million, improving from the 4% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.11 per share.

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. Noodles has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once since going public and has exceeded top-line expectations by -1.8% on average.

Looking at Noodles’s peers in the restaurants segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Shake Shack delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 15.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 1%, and Chipotle reported revenues up 7.5%, in line with consensus estimates. Shake Shack traded up 7.4% following the results while Chipotle was down 18.3%.

Read our full analysis of Shake Shack’s results here and Chipotle’s results here.

Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the restaurants stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 6% on average over the last month. Noodles is up 11% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $2 (compared to the current share price of $0.71).

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