What's In Store For Fidelity National (FIS) In Q1 Earnings?

Fidelity National Information Services (NYSE:FIS) is scheduled to release first-quarter 2018 earnings on May 1, before the opening bell. While the company’s earnings are expected to grow on a year-over-year basis, revenues are likely to decline.

Notably, Fidelity delivered positive earnings surprises in each of the trailing four quarters, with an average beat of 5.7%.

In the last reported quarter, the company pulled off a positive earnings surprise of 11.3%. Results benefited from lower expenses and expansion of net interest margin. However, decline in revenues was a headwind.

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. Price and EPS Surprise

Factors to Influence Q1 Results

Fidelity’s revenue growth story for the first quarter is not expected to be impressive due to the stiff competition in the industry. Per the consensus estimate, revenues from Integrated Financial Solutions are expected to decline 5.6% to $1.07 billion along with fall in revenues from Global Financial Solutions of 13.3% to $883 million. Also, the overall revenues of $2.04 billion are projected to decline 9.6% from the prior-year quarter.

The Florida-based financial service provider’s bottom line might benefit slightly from the lower tax rates and rising interest rate environment.

The company’s focus on introducing new and innovative products in order to meet the growing demand of customers will likely increase expenses, as witnessed in the past.

Earnings Whisper

According to our proven model, Fidelity does not have the right combination of two key ingredients — positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) or better — to increase the odds of an earnings beat.

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Zacks ESP: Earnings ESP for Fidelity is -0.56%.

Zacks Rank: Fidelity carries a Zacks Rank of 3. You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

Also, Fidelity’s activities during the quarter were inadequate to win analysts’ confidence. As a result, earnings estimates for the quarter remained unchanged at $1.04, over the last seven days.

Notably, for the first quarter, the Zacks Consensus Estimate indicates 20.9% growth in earnings on a year-over-year basis.

Earnings Schedule of Other Stocks

Mastercard Incorporated (NYSE:MA) is scheduled to report results on May 2 while Fiserv (NYSE:FIS) and Cardtronics PLC (NASDAQ:CATM) are scheduled to report on May 1 and May 3, respectively.

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