Coterra Energy (CTRA) reported $1.97 billion in revenue for the quarter ended June 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 54.6%. EPS of $0.48 for the same period compares to $0.37 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +16.73% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.68 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.43, the EPS surprise was +11.63%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
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 Cabot performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Production Volumes - Total Company - Daily equivalent production: 783.90 MBOE/d versus 740.85 MBOE/d estimated by seven analysts on average.
- Production Volumes - Total Company - Natural gas liquids: 128.70 MBbl versus the six-analyst average estimate of 112.66 MBbl.
- Production Volumes - Total Company - Natural gas: 2,998.60 MMcf/d versus the six-analyst average estimate of 2,843.56 MMcf/d.
- Production Volumes - Total Company - Oil: 155.40 MBbl/d versus 154.41 MBbl/d estimated by six analysts on average.
- Average sales price (excluding hedges) - Total Company - NGL: 18.72 $/Bbl compared to the 18.73 $/Bbl average estimate based on four analysts.
- Average sales price (including hedges) - Total Company - Natural gas: $2.27 per thousand cubic feet versus $2.37 per thousand cubic feet estimated by four analysts on average.
- Average sales price (excluding hedges) - Total Company - Oil: 62.80 $/Bbl compared to the 63.06 $/Bbl average estimate based on three analysts.
- Average sales price (excluding hedges) - Total Company - Natural gas: $2.2 per thousand cubic feet compared to the $2.19 per thousand cubic feet average estimate based on three analysts.
- Operating revenues- Oil: $888 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $901.18 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +14.7%.
- Operating revenues- Natural gas: $601 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $591.79 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +88.4%.
- Operating revenues- NGL: $219 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $180.87 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +24.4%.
- Operating revenues- Other: $25 million versus $23.5 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +38.9% change.
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Shares of Cabot have returned -6% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.6% 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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