Power transmission and fluid power solutions provider Gates Corporation (NYSE: GTES) will be announcing earnings results this Thursday morning. Here’s what you need to know.

Gates Industrial Corporation met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $855.7 million, up 3% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates and a slight miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Gates Industrial Corporation’s revenue to grow 3.1% year on year to $855.1 million, a reversal from the 3.9% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.37 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Gates Industrial Corporation has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.

Looking at Gates Industrial Corporation’s peers in the engineered components and systems segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Arrow Electronics delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 20.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 6.6%, and Graham Corporation reported revenues up 20.5%, topping estimates by 8.3%. Arrow Electronics traded up 12.4% following the results while Graham Corporation was also up 15.3%.

Read our full analysis of Arrow Electronics’s results here and Graham Corporation’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the engineered components and systems segment, with share prices up 8.6% on average over the last month. Gates Industrial Corporation is up 19.2% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $27.17 (compared to the current share price of $26.76).

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