Earnings Outlook For Commercial Metals

Commercial Metals CMC is set to give its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, 2022-03-17. Here's what investors need to know before the announcement.

Analysts estimate that Commercial Metals will report an earnings per share (EPS) of $1.35.

Commercial Metals bulls will hope to hear the company to announce they've not only beaten that estimate, but also to provide positive guidance, or forecasted growth, for the next quarter.

New investors should note that it is sometimes not an earnings beat or miss that most affects the price of a stock, but the guidance (or forecast).

Historical Earnings Performance

Last quarter the company beat EPS by $0.40, which was followed by a 0.36% increase in the share price the next day.

Here's a look at Commercial Metals's past performance and the resulting price change:

Stock Performance

Shares of Commercial Metals were trading at $41.04 as of March 15. Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 45.89%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders should be satisfied going into this earnings release.

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