ArcBest (ARCB) reported $1.02 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 5.2%. EPS of $1.36 for the same period compares to $1.98 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -1.67% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.04 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $1.48, the EPS surprise was -8.11%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how ArcBest performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Asset-Light - Operating Ratio: 99.8% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 100.5%.
- Asset-Based - Operating Ratio: 92.8% versus 92.2% estimated by three analysts on average.
- Asset-Based - Shipments / Day: 21,051.00 Tons compared to the 21,163.39 Tons average estimate based on two analysts.
- Asset-Based - Billed revenue/CWT: $48.54 versus $48.14 estimated by two analysts on average.
- Asset-Based - Tons / Day: 11,666.00 Ton versus the two-analyst average estimate of 11,726.02 Ton.
- Asset-Based - Pounds / Shipment: 1,108.00 lbs versus the two-analyst average estimate of 1,108.13 lbs.
- Asset-Light - Operating Ratio (Non-GAAP): 99.7% versus the two-analyst average estimate of 100%.
- Asset-Based - Operating Ratio (Non-GAAP): 92.8% versus 92.3% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Asset-Based - Workdays: 64 compared to the 64 average estimate based on two analysts.
- Revenues- Asset-Based: $713.31 million compared to the $715.76 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +0.1% year over year.
- Revenues- Asset-Light: $341.92 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $355.61 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -13.6%.
- Revenues- Other and eliminations: $-32.98 million compared to the $-31.24 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +7.4% year over year.
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Shares of ArcBest have returned +0.1% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +3.4% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold), indicating that it could perform in line with the broader market in the near term.
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