Independent financial services firm LPL Financial (NASDAQ: LPLA) will be reporting earnings this Thursday after the bell. Here’s what you need to know.

LPL Financial missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $4.94 billion, up 34.6% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates but a significant miss of analysts’ AUM estimates.

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This quarter, the market is expecting LPL Financial’s revenue to grow 31.5% year on year, in line with the 30.8% 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 will stay the course heading into earnings. LPL Financial rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.

Looking at LPL Financial’s peers in the investment banking & brokerage segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Goldman Sachs delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 39.5%, beating analysts’ expectations by 23.7%, and PJT reported revenues up 19.5%, topping estimates by 14.3%. Goldman Sachs traded up 10.2% following the results.

Read our full analysis of Goldman Sachs’s results here and PJT’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the investment banking & brokerage segment, with share prices up 8.9% on average over the last month. LPL Financial is up 24.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $412.29 (compared to the current share price of $335.39).

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