For the quarter ended September 2025, Hess Midstream Partners LP (HESM) reported revenue of $420.9 million, up 11.2% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.75, compared to $0.63 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.1% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $421.33 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.73, the EPS surprise was +2.74%.
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 Hess Midstream Partners performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Throughput Volumes - Gas gathering: 480.00 MMcf/d versus 478.70 MMcf/d estimated by two analysts on average.
- Throughput Volumes - Crude oil gathering: 123.00 MBbl/d versus 129.46 MBbl/d estimated by two analysts on average.
- Throughput Volumes - Water gathering: 137.00 MBbl/d versus the two-analyst average estimate of 144.66 MBbl/d.
- Throughput Volumes - Crude oil terminaling: 130.00 MBbl/d compared to the 137.31 MBbl/d average estimate based on two analysts.
- Throughput Volumes - NGL loading: 18.00 MBbl/d versus 14.97 MBbl/d estimated by two analysts on average.
- Throughput Volumes - Gas processing: 462.00 MMcf/d versus the two-analyst average estimate of 463.06 MMcf/d.
- Revenue- Gathering: $227.3 million compared to the $229.83 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Revenue- Terminaling and Export: $34 million versus $34.67 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Revenue- Processing and Storage: $159.6 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $176.62 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA- Terminaling and Export: $23.4 million versus $24.63 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Adjusted EBITDA- Gathering: $166 million compared to the $161.08 million average estimate based on two analysts.
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Shares of Hess Midstream Partners have returned +1% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +1.4% 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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