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What To Expect From La-Z-Boy’s (LZB) Q3 Earnings

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Furniture company La-Z-Boy (NYSE:LZB) will be reporting earnings tomorrow after the bell. Here’s what to look for.

La-Z-Boy beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $495.5 million, up 2.9% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a decent beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates but a miss of analysts’ Wholesale revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting La-Z-Boy’s revenue to decline 1.1% year on year to $506 million, improving from the 16.3% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.64 per share.

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The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. La-Z-Boy has only missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates once over the last two years, exceeding top-line expectations by 3.1% on average.

Looking at La-Z-Boy’s peers in the home furnishings segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Tempur Sealy delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.9%, and Purple reported a revenue decline of 15.3%, falling short of estimates by 6.3%. Tempur Sealy traded up 9.1% following the results while Purple was down 12%.

Read our full analysis of Tempur Sealy’s results here and Purple’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the home furnishings segment, with share prices up 4.1% on average over the last month. La-Z-Boy is up 7.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $43 (compared to the current share price of $42.79).

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