Frontier Communications (FYBR) reported $1.55 billion in revenue for the quarter ended September 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 4.1%. EPS of -$0.30 for the same period compares to -$0.33 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +0.47% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.54 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being -$0.40, the EPS surprise was +25%.
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 Frontier Communications performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Broadband customer metrics - Broadband customers: 3.31 million versus 3.31 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Total Fiber Penetration: 31.3% versus 31.2% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Broadband Customers - Consumer - Fiber: 2.6 million compared to the 2.6 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Broadband Customers - Business + Wholesale - Fiber: 161 thousand versus the two-analyst average estimate of 158.78 thousand.
- Revenue- Revenue from contracts with customers: $1.53 billion versus $1.53 billion estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +4.2% change.
- Revenue- Subsidy and other revenue: $17 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $17.95 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -5.6%.
- Revenue- Video services: $63 million versus $62.92 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -24.1% change.
- Revenue- Fiber- Consumer: $628 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $631.17 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +17%.
- Revenue- Other: $78 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $84 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -6%.
- Revenue- Revenue from contracts with customers- Fiber: $956 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $966.82 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +10.3%.
- Revenue- Revenue from contracts with customers- Copper: $577 million versus $574.07 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -4.5% change.
- Revenue- Fiber- Business and Wholesale: $328 million compared to the $335.65 million average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of -0.6% year over year.
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Shares of Frontier Communications have returned +0.6% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +3.6% 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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