Earnings Outlook For USA Truck

USA Truck USAK is set to give its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, 2021-10-28. Here's what investors need to know before the announcement.

Analysts estimate that USA Truck will likely report an Earnings Per Share (EPS) of $0.49

USA Truck 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).

Past Earnings Performance

Last quarter the company missed on EPS by -7.41%, which was followed by a 5.8% drop in the share price the next day.

Here's a look at USA Truck's past performance and the resulting price change:

Quarter Q2 2021 Q1 2021 Q4 2020 Q3 2020
EPS Estimate 0.54 0.23 0.42 0.06
EPS Actual 0.50 0.43 0.70 0.29
Price Change % -5.8% -3.94% -2.01% -1.49%

eps graph

Stock Performance

Shares of USA Truck were trading at $18.75 as of October 26. Over the last 52-week period, shares are up 114.36%. Given that these returns are generally positive, long-term shareholders should be satisfied going into this earnings release.

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