AES Corp (AES) To Report Q4 Earnings: What's In The Cards?
Zacks Investment Research | Feb 26, 2020 08:55PM ET
The AES Corporation (NYSE:AES) is scheduled to release fourth-quarter and full-year 2019 results on Feb 28, before the opening bell.
In the last reported quarter, this utility delivered a positive surprise of 20%.
Moreover, the company’s earnings surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate on two occasions for as many misses over the trailing four quarters, the average positive surprise being 4.68%.
Let’s see how things have shaped up prior to this announcement.
Factors to Consider
During the fourth quarter, majority of AES Corp’s service territories witnessed warmer-than-expected weather, with the month of October being the warmest. Such extreme weather conditions are likely to have pushed up electricity demand for cooling, in turn, boosting its quarterly revenues.
Notably, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for fourth-quarter revenues is pegged at $2,775 million, which indicates a 5.8% increase from the year-ago quarter’s reported figure.
AES Corp is expected to have witnessed a higher tax rate during the December-end quarter compared with the year-ago quarter’s tax rate. In addition, the power outage at the company’s water-run facility in the United States might have escalated its operations and maintenance cost during the period in discussion. Such factors are likely to have dragged down the company’s quarterly bottom-line growth.
Currently, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for the fourth-quarter earnings is pegged at 33 cents, reflecting a year-over-year decline of 8.3%.
Earlier in April 2019, AES Corp entered into an agreement to sell its interests in six Jordan-based power plants. Further developments took place when the company, during the third-quarter earnings call, announced
its expectation of closing the transactions by the year end. Considering this divestment to have duly taken place, we expect the upcoming results to reflect sale proceeds from this deal.
The AES Corporation Price and EPS Surprise
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