Be Aerospace Earnings Preview For Monday's Release (BEAV)
Be Aerospace (NASDAQ:BEAV) is expected to report earnings for last fiscal quarter before the opening bell on April 23, 2012.
Who They Are:
BE Aerospace, Inc. designs, manufactures, sells, and services commercial aircraft and business jet cabin interior products worldwide. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Wellington, Florida. Be Aerospace shares trade an average of 809,000 shares per day and has a marketcap of $4.6 Billion.
Book Value: $17.94
Float Short: 3.34%
What To Expect:
Analysts are expecting an improvement of $0.02 in earnings per share compared to last quarter's results of $0.60. A beat of $0.62 per share will top the estimated mean earnings.
For the last analyst update, a low of $0.58 and a high of $0.69 per share is what Wall Street is anticipating.
Here is a look at the fiscal year revenue for Be Aerospace. 
Recent Stock and Valuation Performance:
Relative to the earnings, investors have not been as aggressive accumulating shares, as the current trailing twelve months P/E ratio is 20, while the forward P/E ratio is now 15.84. It appears based on the lower PE that investors are pricing in less growth.
The stock has fallen in price -5.89% in the last month, with a change from a year ago of 23.19%.
With a gain compared to stocks in general, the stock is better than the overall stock market. When comparing to the S&P 500, the year up to date change is 3.36%.
Revenue growth relative to last year appears to be problematic for management. Comparing year-over-year fiscal years, revenue has declined to $2.50 billion for 2011 vs. $1.98 billion for 2010. The bottom line has rising earnings year-over-year of $227.80 million for 2011 vs. $143.30 million for 2010.The company's earnings before interest and taxes are rising with an EBIT year-over-year of $428.00 million for 2011 vs. $316.00 million for 2010. Rising revenue along with rising earnings is a very good sign and what we want to see with our companies. Be sure to check the margins in the earnings release to make sure the bottom line is keeping up with the top line.
Here are the last few quarters to get an idea how well they perform compared to estimates 
Reported earnings per share compared to the mean estimate. Differences are rounded.
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