For the quarter ended June 2025, Legget & Platt (LEG) reported revenue of $1.06 billion, down 6.3% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.30, compared to $0.29 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.54% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.06 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.29, the EPS surprise was +3.45%.
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.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how Legget & Platt performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Change in Organic Sales - Bedding Products: -11% versus -9.1% estimated by four analysts on average.
- Change in Organic Sales - Specialized Products: -5% versus -1.6% estimated by four analysts on average.
- Change in Organic Sales - Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products: -2% compared to the -5.6% average estimate based on four analysts.
- Change in Organic Sales: -6% compared to the -5.3% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Trade sales- Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products: $362.5 million compared to the $364.82 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of -2.3% year over year.
- Trade sales- Specialized Products: $304.1 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $301.68 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -4.9%.
- Trade sales- Bedding Products: $391.4 million versus $397.2 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -10.6% change.
- EBIT- Bedding Products: $27.2 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $19.5 million.
- EBIT- Specialized Products: $38.7 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $27.26 million.
- Adjusted EBIT- Specialized Products: $37.6 million compared to the $32.55 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Adjusted EBIT- Bedding Products: $12.6 million versus $10.6 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Adjusted EBIT- Furniture, Flooring & Textile ProductsC: $25.3 million versus $31.6 million estimated by two analysts on average.
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Shares of Legget & Platt have returned -2.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +2.7% 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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