TransUnion (TRU) Q1 Earnings: What's In Store This Time?
Zacks Investment Research | Apr 24, 2017 07:17AM ET
Premium business service company TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) is scheduled to release first-quarter 2017 results before the market opens on Apr 25. In the last reported quarter, adjusted earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 10 cents. The company recorded an average positive earnings surprise of 13.6% over the trailing four quarters, beating estimates thrice.
Let’s see how things are shaping up prior to this announcement.
Factors to Consider
TransUnion has an attractive business model with highly recurring and diversified revenue streams, significant operating leverage, low capital requirements and strong and stable cash flows. In addition, the inherent nature and significance of its solutions in customers’ decision-making steps endow it with high customer retention and revenue visibility. Impressively, it deals with the 10 largest U.S. banks, the top five credit card issuers, the biggest 25 auto lenders and thousands of healthcare providers and federal, state and local government agencies. Also, the company keeps making significant investments to modernize its infrastructure and facilitate the seamless transition to the latest Big Data and analytics technologies. This enables TransUnion to expand its business and improve its cost structure.
During the quarter, the company launched its Innovation Lab, to enable lenders accelerate growth, power new models and identify expansion opportunities in real time. Based in TransUnions’ Chicago headquarters, the Innovation Lab gives customers access to the company's proprietary data environment and analytics experts. The company unveiled the Innovation Lab at LendIt USA 2017. It is expected to enhance Trans Unions’ client offerings and customer base, helping the company boost its revenues.
Toward the end of the third-quarter 2016, the company collaborated with Carahsoft Technology Corp., a trusted government IT solutions provider. The deal was expected to help deliver TransUnions’ investigative and risk management tool, TLOxp and its identity authentication and verification solutions to the public sector via Carahsoft's GSA Schedule 70 and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contracts. The benefits of this deal are likely to be seen in the to-be-reported quarter.
As emerging market economies continue to develop and mature, the company becomes well positioned to gain from the associated favorable socio-economic trends. Additionally, increased risk of identity theft due to data breaches and higher consumer awareness about the importance and usage of their credit information are propelling the demand for TransUnion’s consumer solutions.
For the first quarter, consolidated revenues are expected to be between $440 million and $445 million. Adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) is expected to be in the range of $162–$165 million. Adjusted earnings per share are expected to be between 38 cents and 39 cents, an increase of 19–22%.
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Despite inherent strengths, our proven model does not conclusively show that TransUnion is likely to beat earnings this quarter as it does not possess the key components. A stock needs to have both a positive Zacks Investment Research
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