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Earnings day, with a slightly lower hurdle
Nextpower is headed into the after-hours spotlight on Tuesday, May 12, and analysts are bracing for a softer quarter than the same stretch last year. The current consensus calls for earnings of 93 cents a share on revenue of about $829.8 million, both below the year-ago comparison.
The setup isn’t exactly dramatic — but it matters
This isn’t one of those “everything is on fire” earnings previews. Nextpower already came into the year with a little swagger after reporting a better-than-expected third quarter on Jan. 27 and bumping up its FY26 guidance. So the real question for you as an investor is simple: can the company keep proving that the last quarter wasn’t a one-hit wonder?
The analyst parade rolls on
The stock also got the usual Wall Street tune-up ahead of the call:
- Baird’s Ben Kallo kept an Outperform rating and lifted his price target to $133 from $126
- Susquehanna’s Biju Perincheril stayed Positive and nudged his target to $136 from $133
- Barclays’ Christine Cho held Overweight and raised the target to $123 from $115
- Jefferies’ Julien Dumoulin-Smith kept Buy and boosted his target to $138 from $122
In other words, the bears are not exactly staging a takeover.
Big picture
Nextpower doesn’t need a blockbuster; it needs a clean handoff from guidance to execution. If revenue and margins hold up, the stock can keep its “show me more” narrative intact. If not, today’s optimism may start looking a little too caffeinated.