Rollins, Inc. (ROL) earnings on July 22, 2026
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
Rollins shares dropped sharply after an analyst downgrade, falling as much as 20% before closing down 9%.
ROL price around the earnings
39.44
Change: -9.3%
2026-07-23, 20:00 UTC
Start of the measured window
End of the measured window
34.67
37.85
41.03
44.21
43.47
July 22, 2026
July 23, 2026
- Price: green if it ends above the starting price; red if it ends below
- Start of the measured window
- End of the measured window
- Market open
- No trading (market closed)
- Starting price
Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Accurate
- Thesis published
- Results released
Analysts cite positive growth with high upside, but negative 30d trend strength and weak past earnings persist.
Context analyzed before publication
- Trend
- Persistent negative trend strength and weak beat rate, indicating a condition after a strong recent drop into earnings.
Analysts
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2.05
- Analysts covering the stock
- 17
- Average price target
- 58.88
- Lowest price target
- 46
- Highest price target
- 72
- Upside to price target
- 35.9%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 2.5%
- Revenue growth
- 10.2%
- Forward EPS
- 1.39
- Trailing EPS
- 1.09
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 4
- Strong buy: 6
- Buy: 6
- Hold: 7
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 0
- Strong buy
- 6
- Buy
- 6
- Hold
- 7
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 0
- July 15, 2026 · Citigroup: Initiates coverage (Neutral)
- July 8, 2026 · Morgan Stanley: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- June 25, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Equal-Weight → Equal-Weight)
- May 29, 2026 · Bernstein: Downgrades rating (Outperform → Market Perform)
News and sentiment
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (3)
- Merck To Rally More Than 16%? Here Are 10 Top Analyst Forecasts For Wednesday (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Morgan Stanley Maintains Overweight on Rollins, Lowers Price Target to $65 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Equal-Weight on Rollins, Lowers Price Target to $46 (opens in a new tab) — Benzinga
Technicals
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.6%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -33.5%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +0.6%
- 30-day change (33d)
- -2.4%
- 30-day relative strength
- -2.5%
- SPY change (33d)
- +0.2%
- Nearest support
- 43.84
- Nearest resistance
- 44.23
- Volume accumulation ratio (14d / 46d)
- 1.17
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +0.1%
- April 22, 2026: actual EPS 0.24 vs estimate 0.24 (surprise +1.3%)
- February 11, 2026: actual EPS 0.25 vs estimate 0.27 (surprise -6.6%)
- October 29, 2025: actual EPS 0.35 vs estimate 0.33 (surprise +6.3%)
- July 23, 2025: actual EPS 0.3 vs estimate 0.3 (surprise -0.7%)
Expected move
- Implied move
- +2.1%
- Source
- Options chain
Reactions over its last 20 earnings
- Median move
- 5.1%
- 75th percentile move
- 6.8%
- 90th percentile move
- 10.1%
- Up / down moves
- 11 / 9
- Average up move
- +4.2%
- Average down move
- -6.4%
Monitoring and close
What Rollins, Inc. reported
- Status
- Pending
| Actual EPS | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| EPS estimate | 0.34 |
| EPS surprise | -5.9% |
| Revenue | $1,079 million |
| Revenue estimate | $1,092 million |
| Revenue surprise | -1.2% |
Sources (1)
- Rollins reported adjusted EPS of $0.32, missing the $0.34 estimate, and revenue of $1.079B, below the $1.092B consensus. — Benzinga
Pre-market second reading after the results
- Verdict
- Missed expectations
Heading into the open, the figures confirm the pessimistic scenario. In the 1419 past cases with a similar move, the close held that direction 96% of the time.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Accurate
- Consolidated
- -9.3%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 20.6%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 1.7%