For the quarter ended June 2025, Denny's (DENN) reported revenue of $117.66 million, up 1.5% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.09, compared to $0.13 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $117.5 million, representing a surprise of +0.13%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of -10%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $0.10.
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 Denny's performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Company operated restaurants at end of period: 84 compared to the 84 average estimate based on two analysts.
- Changes in Same-Restaurant Sales - Company Restaurants: 0% compared to the -0.3% average estimate based on two analysts.
- Changes in Same-Restaurant Sales - Domestic System-wide Restaurants: -1.3% versus -0.8% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Total restaurants end of period: 1,558 versus the two-analyst average estimate of 1,548.
- Changes in Same-Restaurant Sales - Domestic Franchise Restaurants: -1.4% versus the two-analyst average estimate of -0.9%.
- Franchised and licensed restaurants at end of period: 1,474 compared to the 1,464 average estimate based on two analysts.
- Revenue- Franchise and license revenue: $59.26 million versus $59.93 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -3.8% change.
- Revenue- Company restaurant sales: $58.4 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $57.58 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +7.5%.
- Restaurant-level Operating Margin- Franchise Operating Margin: $30.05 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $30.58 million.
- Restaurant-level Operating Margin- Company Restaurant Operating Margin: $6.05 million compared to the $6.44 million average estimate based on two analysts.
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Shares of Denny's have returned -20.4% 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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