Edgewell Personal Care (EPC) Q2 Earnings: What To Expect

Personal care company Edgewell Personal Care (NYSE:EPC) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday morning. Here’s what investors should know.

Edgewell Personal Care missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $580.7 million, down 3.1% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and full-year EBITDA guidance missing analysts’ expectations.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Edgewell Personal Care’s revenue to grow 1.1% year on year to $654.6 million, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.99 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Edgewell Personal Care has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.

Looking at Edgewell Personal Care’s peers in the consumer staples segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. USANA delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 10.8%, beating analysts’ expectations by 4.7%, and Nature's Sunshine reported revenues up 3.8%, topping estimates by 2.2%. USANA traded up 12.4% following the results while Nature's Sunshine was also up 13.7%.

Read our full analysis of USANA’s results here and Nature's Sunshine’s results here.

Debates over possible tariffs and corporate tax adjustments have raised questions about economic stability in 2025. While some of the consumer staples stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 2.4% on average over the last month. Edgewell Personal Care is up 2.7% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $31 (compared to the current share price of $25.16).

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