Have you been eager to see how fracking sand player Emerge Energy Services L.P. (NYSE:EMES) performed in Q3 in comparison with the market expectations? Let’s quickly scan through the key facts from this Southlake, TX-based partnership’s earnings release this morning:
About Emerge Energy Services: It is an energy services firm, engages mainly in mining, producing and silica sand distribution businesses.
Zacks Rank & Surprise History: Currently, Emerge Energy Services has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy) but that could change following its third quarter 2016 earnings report which has just released. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.
Coming to earnings surprise history, the partnership has a dismal record: its missed estimates in each of the last four quarters with an average miss of 112.26%.
EMERGE ENRG SVC Price and EPS Surprise
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We have highlighted some of the key details from the just-released announcement below:
A Wider-than-Expected Loss: The partnership reported loss per unit from continuing operations of $1.24, wider than the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of 92 cents.
Revenue Came in Higher than Expected: Revenues of $31.3 million were above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $28 million.
Key Stats: Emerge Energy Services has earlier classified its fuel business as discontinued operations as the partnership is willing to sell the unit. The entire earnings of the partnership are now from the sand segment which incurred adjusted loss from continuing operation of $10.9 million. In the year-ago quarter, the company had generated a profit of $2.1 million.
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