E-commerce florist and gift retailer 1-800-FLOWERS (NASDAQ: FLWS) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday morning. Here’s what to look for.

1-800-FLOWERS beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 2% last quarter, reporting revenues of $336.6 million, down 6.7% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EPS and EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting 1-800-FLOWERS’s revenue to decline 10.1% year on year to $217.8 million, in line with the 10% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted loss is expected to come in at -$0.64 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. 1-800-FLOWERS has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times since going public.

Looking at 1-800-FLOWERS’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Pool delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 1.3%, meeting analysts’ expectations, and Nike reported revenues up 1.1%, topping estimates by 6.5%. Pool traded down 1.5% following the results while Nike was up 6.5%.

Read our full analysis of Pool’s results here and Nike’s results here.

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