What You Need to Know Ahead of Tractor Supply's Earnings Release

Tractor Supply Company (TSCO), with a market cap of $27.9 billion, is the largest operator of rural lifestyle retail stores in the United States, catering to the needs of recreational farmers, ranchers, and small businesses. Based in Brentwood, Tennessee, the company is slated to announce its fiscal Q2 earnings results before the market opens on Thursday, Jul. 25.

Ahead of this event, analysts expect the rural lifestyle retailer to report a profit of $3.94 per share, up 2.9% from $3.83 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has surpassed Wall Street's bottom-line estimates in three of the past four quarters while missing on one other occasion. The company’s EPS of $1.83 jumped 10.9% annually in the most recent quarter, sailing past the consensus EPS estimate by a 7.7% margin.