Earnings Preview: Heritage-Crystal Clean

On Wednesday, October 14, Heritage-Crystal Clean HCCI will report its last quarter's earnings. Here is Benzinga's preview of the company's release.

Earnings and Revenue

Analysts covering Heritage-Crystal Clean have modeled for quarterly EPS loss of $0.15 on revenue of $86.51 million. Heritage-Crystal Clean EPS in the same period a year ago totaled $0.28. Sales were $104.84 million. If the company were to match the consensus estimate when it reports Wednesday, earnings would be down 153.57%. Sales would be down 17.48% from the year-ago period. Here is how the company's reported EPS has compared to analyst estimates in the past:

Stock Performance

Shares of Heritage-Crystal Clean were trading at $14.56 as of October 12. Over the last 52-week period, shares are down 45.32%. Given that these returns are generally negative, long-term shareholders are probably a little upset going into this earnings release.

Do not be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Heritage-Crystal Clean is scheduled to hold the call at 10:30:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=reg20.jsp&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crystal-clean.com%2F&eventid=2597461&sessionid=1&key=591290A43D9BA5E517CE4D6AB49F642E&regTag=&sourcepage=register