Viper Energy Partners (VNOM) reported $297 million in revenue for the quarter ended June 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 37.1%. EPS of $0.41 for the same period compares to $0.61 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +0.94% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $294.24 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.34, the EPS surprise was +20.59%.
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.
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 Viper Energy performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Average daily combined volumes: 79,286.00 BOE/D compared to the 76,642.98 BOE/D average estimate based on seven analysts.
- Average sales prices - Natural gas liquids: $20.70 versus the four-analyst average estimate of $20.04.
- Average sales prices - Natural Gas: $0.99 versus the four-analyst average estimate of $1.88.
- Production - Crude Oil: 3,787.00 MBBL versus 3,823.16 MBBL estimated by four analysts on average.
- Average sales prices - Crude Oil: $63.64 versus the four-analyst average estimate of $63.83.
- Total Production: 7,215.00 MBOE versus 6,980.37 MBOE estimated by four analysts on average.
- Production - NGL: 1,739.00 MBBL compared to the 1,480.78 MBBL average estimate based on four analysts.
- Natural Gas Income: $10 million compared to the $20.61 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +774.9% year over year.
- Natural Gas Liquids Income: $36 million compared to the $29.34 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +79.9% year over year.
- Oil income: $241 million compared to the $242.18 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +24% year over year.
- Lease bonus income: $10 million versus $1.2 million estimated by three analysts on average.
- Royalty income: $287 million compared to the $292.64 million average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of +33.2% year over year.
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Shares of Viper Energy have returned -3.8% 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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