Expeditors Q3 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates, EPS Improves Y/Y

Expeditors International of Washington’s EXPD third-quarter 2025 earnings of $1.64 per share beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.40. The bottom line also increased 0.6% year over year. Total revenues of $2.89 billion beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.68 billion but decreased 4% year over year, due to weakness in ocean freight and services.

Airfreight tonnage volume increased 4% during the quarter, while ocean container volume decreased 3%. Operating income decreased 4% year over year to $288 million. Total operating expenses slid 3.5% year over year to $2.6 billion.

Expeditors International of Washington Price, Consensus and EPS Surprise

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Airfreight Services revenues increased 3.4% year over year to $1 billion in the third quarter of 2025, driven by growth of airfreight tonnage on exports, mainly from North and South Asia. Ocean freight and ocean services revenues plummeted 26.7% year over year to $746.1 million. Pricing volatility and lower volumes hurt segmental results. Customs Brokerage and other services revenues increased 13.5% year over year to $1.13 billion, with all the businesses in this category exhibiting strong growth.

During the third quarter of 2025, EXPD rewarded its shareholders to the tune of $212 million through share buybacks. The transportation company returned $725 million to its shareholders through share repurchases and dividends year to date. EXPD exited the third quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $1.19 billion compared with $1.15 billion at the 2024 end.

Zacks Rank of EXPD

Currently, EXPD carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy) stocks here.

Q3 Performances of Some Other Transportation Companies

Delta Air Lines DAL reported third-quarter 2025 earnings (excluding 46 cents from non-recurring items) of $1.71 per share, which beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.52. Earnings increased 14% on a year-over-year basis due to low fuel costs.

Revenues in the September-end quarter were $16.67 billion, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $15.79 billion and increasing 6.4% on a year-over-year basis. Due to improving air-travel demand, adjusted operating revenues (excluding third-party refinery sales) increased 4.1% year over year to $15.2 billion. 

United Airlines UAL reported mixed third-quarter 2025 results wherein its earnings beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate, but revenues missed the same.

UAL's third-quarter 2025 adjusted earnings per share (excluding 12 cents from non-recurring items) of $2.78 surpassed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.64 but declined 16.5% on a year-over-year basis. The reported figure lies above the guided range of $2.25-$2.75.

Operating revenues of $15.2 billion fell short of the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $15.3 billion but increased 2.6% year over year. Passenger revenues (which accounted for 90.7% of the top line) increased 1.9% year over year to $13.8 billion. UAL flights transported 48,382 passengers in the third quarter, up 6.2% year over year.  

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