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Mar 31, 2023
CBRE Q1 2023 Earnings Report
CBRE's first quarter results were slightly better than expected, but still significantly down from last year. The company maintains its earnings outlook for full-year 2023.
Key Takeaways
CBRE Group, Inc. reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2023. GAAP EPS declined 68% to $0.37, and Core EPS declined 34% to $0.92. Revenue was $7.411 billion, a 1.1% increase year-over-year.
First quarter results were slightly better than expected, led by resilient business elements and cost management.
Full-year 2023 earnings outlook maintained, with core earnings per share expected to decline by low-to-mid double digits, but exceed the prior peak in 2024.
Cyclically resilient businesses, including Global Workplace Solutions, loan servicing, and property management, rose nearly 10% and are expected to generate over 50% of business segment operating profit.
GWS had its strongest first quarter for new business since 2019, with pipeline rising to a record level.
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CBRE is maintaining its earnings outlook for full-year 2023, with core earnings per share expected to decline by low-to-mid double digits this year, but then exceed the prior peak in 2024.
Positive Outlook
- Benefits from the diversification of the business.
- Intense focus on cost management.
- Expectation that a recession this year will be moderate.
- Eventual easing of the Fed’s monetary policy will spur a rebound in economic activity in 2024.
- GWS pipeline rose to a record level with growth across nearly all key client sectors.
Challenges Ahead
- Pressure on transactional businesses is expected to intensify further this year.
- Uncertainty in the outlook is higher than 60 days ago.
- Non-core operating loss totaled $26 million, primarily due to the lower fair-value of the company’s investment in Altus Power, Inc.
- Sales revenue fell 41% due to severely constrained capital availability and especially difficult comparisons with first-quarter 2022.
- Most debt capital sources sharply curtailed their lending activity.
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