Athletic apparel and footwear retailer Hibbett (NASDAQ:HIBB) is expected to be reporting results tomorrow before market open. Here’s what investors should know.

Hibbett missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.5% last quarter, reporting revenues of $447.2 million, down 1.8% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ gross margin estimates but a slight miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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The majority of analysts covering the company have reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.

With Hibbett being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for specialty retail stocks. However, investors in the segment have had fairly steady hands going into earnings, with share prices down 1.4% on average over the last month.

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