RadiSys Earnings Preview

Updated

RadiSys (NAS: RSYS) will try to beat its earnings estimates for the fourth consecutive quarter. The company will unveil its latest earnings on Tuesday, April 24. RadiSys is a provider of advanced embedded solutions for the communications networking and commercial systems markets.

What analysts say:

  • Buy, sell, or hold?: Analysts are very bullish on this stock, unanimously backing it as a buy. That rating hasn't budged in three months as analysts have remained unchanged in their opinion of the stock.

  • Revenue forecasts: On average, analysts predict $77.1 million in revenue this quarter. That would represent a rise of 4.8% from the year-ago quarter.

  • Wall Street earnings expectations: The average analyst estimate is a loss of $0.03 per share.

What our community says:
CAPS All-Stars are strongly backing the stock, with 87.1% assigning it an outperform rating. The greater community is in line with the All-Stars, as 91.2% give it a rating of outperform. Even with a robust four out of five stars, RadiSys' CAPS rating falls a little short of the community's upbeat outlook.


Management:
Revenue has now gone up for three straight quarters.

Now, a look at how efficient management has been at running the business. Margins are a representation of how efficiently a company captures portions of sales dollars. RadiSys has seen decreasing net margins year over year for the last three quarters. Net margins reflect what percentage of each dollar earned by the company becomes profit. Here is how RadiSys has been doing for the last four quarters:

Quarter

Q4

Q3

Q2

Q1

Gross Margin

31.2%

28.6%

29.8%

27.5%

Operating Margin

(8.1%)

(5.6%)

0.8%

(0.1%)

Net Margin

(8.4%)

2.8%

0.2%

(0.7%)

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