Airline company United Airlines Holdings (NASDAQ: UAL) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday after the bell. Here’s what investors should know.

United Airlines met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $15.23 billion, up 2.6% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with EPS guidance for next quarter exceeding analysts’ expectations and a decent beat of analysts’ adjusted operating income estimates. It reported 73.77 billion revenue passenger miles, up 6.1% year on year.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting United Airlines’s revenue to grow 4.6% year on year to $15.38 billion, slowing from the 7.8% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.94 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. United Airlines has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.

Looking at United Airlines’s peers in the consumer discretionary segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Carnival delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.6%, missing analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and Delta reported revenues up 2.9%, topping estimates by 1.6%. Carnival traded up 13.7% following the results while Delta was down 3.3%.

Read our full analysis of Carnival’s results here and Delta’s results here.

There has been positive sentiment among investors in the consumer discretionary segment, with share prices up 2.5% on average over the last month. United Airlines is down 2.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $132.29 (compared to the current share price of $113.51).

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