Regional banking company Pinnacle Financial Partners (NASDAQ: PNFP) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what investors should know.

Pinnacle Financial Partners beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 5.4% last quarter, reporting revenues of $560 million, up 17% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ revenue estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ tangible book value per share estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Pinnacle Financial Partners’s revenue to grow 14.6% year on year to $558.4 million, in line with the 14.1% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $2.26 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. Pinnacle Financial Partners has a history of exceeding Wall Street’s expectations, beating revenue estimates every single time over the past two years by 2.5% on average.

Looking at Pinnacle Financial Partners’s peers in the regional banks segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. First Horizon delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 8.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3.2%, and BOK Financial reported revenues up 12.7%, topping estimates by 7.6%. First Horizon traded up 102% following the results while BOK Financial was down 5.9%.

Read our full analysis of First Horizon’s results here and BOK Financial’s results here.

Investors in the regional banks segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices up 1.4% on average over the last month. Pinnacle Financial Partners is down 3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $114.86 (compared to the current share price of $98.44).

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