Parker-Hannifin (PH) reported $5.17 billion in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 9.1%. EPS of $7.65 for the same period compares to $6.53 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +2.59% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $5.04 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $7.15, the EPS surprise was +6.93%.
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.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how Parker-Hannifin performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Reported sales growth - Aerospace Systems: 14.5% versus 11.9% estimated by three analysts on average.
- Organic sales growth - Diversified Industrial International Businesses: 4.6% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 1.7%.
- Reported sales growth - Diversified Industrial International Businesses: 11.8% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 8.5%.
- Reported sales growth: 9.1% versus the three-analyst average estimate of 6.8%.
- Diversified Industrial - International - Organic sales growth: 4.6% compared to the 1.5% average estimate based on two analysts.
- Diversified Industrial - North America - Organic sales growth: 2.5% versus 2.8% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Organic sales growth: 6.6% versus 4.7% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Organic sales growth - Aerospace Systems: 13.5% versus the two-analyst average estimate of 10.2%.
- Net Sales- Aerospace Systems: $1.71 billion versus $1.67 billion estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +14.5% change.
- Net Sales- Diversified Industrial- International: $1.48 billion versus the three-analyst average estimate of $1.44 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +11.9%.
- Net Sales- Diversified Industrial- North America: $1.99 billion versus the three-analyst average estimate of $1.96 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +3%.
- Adjusted segment operating income- Diversified Industrial- North America: $504 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $505.32 million.
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Shares of Parker-Hannifin have returned +4.2% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.8% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), indicating that it could outperform the broader market in the near term.
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