Financial brokerage and technology company BGC Group (NASDAQ: BGC) will be reporting results this Thursday before the bell. Here’s what investors should know.

BGC missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 4.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $703 million, up 31.2% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with and a miss of analysts’ revenue estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting BGC’s revenue to grow 37% year on year to $750.9 million, improving from the 10.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.29 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. BGC has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates six times over the last two years.

Looking at BGC’s peers in the investment banking & brokerage segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Moelis delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 11.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 10%, and Evercore reported revenues up 32.4%, topping estimates by 16%. Moelis traded up 1.1% following the results while Evercore was also up 3.7%.

Read our full analysis of Moelis’s results here and Evercore’s results here.

Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the investment banking & brokerage stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 3.5% on average over the last month. BGC is up 3.4% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $14.50 (compared to the current share price of $9.09).

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