Shares of Philip Morris Worldwide Inc. (NYSE: PM) had been up over 2% on Monday. The inventory has gained 33% over the previous three months. The tobacco firm is scheduled to report its earnings outcomes for the primary quarter of 2025 on Wednesday, April 23, earlier than market open. Right here’s a take a look at what to anticipate from the earnings report:
Income
Analysts are projecting income of $9.13 billion for Philip Morris in Q1 2025. This means a progress of over 3% from the identical interval a yr in the past. Within the fourth quarter of 2024, revenues grew 7% year-over-year to $9.7 billion.
Earnings
Philip Morris has guided for adjusted earnings per share to vary between $1.58-1.63 in Q1 2025. Analysts are predicting EPS of $1.61. This compares to adjusted EPS of $1.50 reported in Q1 2024. In This fall 2024, adjusted EPS rose 14% YoY to $1.55.
Factors to notice
Philip Morris might be anticipated to learn from the continued momentum in its smoke-free enterprise, which accounted for 40% of its complete revenues and 42% of its gross revenue in This fall 2024. Final quarter, the smoke-free enterprise noticed a 9% progress in revenues and a 15% progress in gross revenue. The corporate’s smoke-free merchandise are at the moment obtainable in 95 markets.
The energy within the smoke-free enterprise is being pushed by IQOS and ZYN. IQOS continued to realize market share in Japan and Europe and noticed double-digit progress in areas like Spain and Germany final quarter whereas ZYN grew cargo quantity by 42% to 165 million cans. In This fall, PM noticed 13% progress in heated tobacco items (HTU) adjusted in-market gross sales (IMS) quantity.
For the primary quarter, PM has forecast HTU adjusted IMS progress of round 10% together with cargo volumes of 35-36 billion for HTUs and 170-180 million cans for US ZYN.
Philip Morris can also be anticipated to learn from the resilience of its combustibles enterprise, which is being fueled by excessive pricing, in addition to quantity progress in markets the place smoke-free merchandise are usually not permitted. In This fall, combustibles income grew 6% YoY whereas cigarette cargo quantity rose 1.1%.
