Carpenter Technology (CRS) reported $728 million in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 7.6%. EPS of $2.33 for the same period compares to $1.66 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.08% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $728.57 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $2.20, the EPS surprise was +5.79%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
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 Carpenter performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Volumes Sold in Pounds - Specialty Alloys Operations: 46.84 million versus 44.86 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Volumes Sold in Pounds: 48.4 million versus 46.45 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Volumes Sold in Pounds - Intersegment: -0.66 million compared to the -0.66 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Volumes Sold in Pounds - Performance Engineered Products: 2.22 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of 2.25 million.
- Net Sales- End-Use Market Excluding Surcharge Revenue- Total: $589.1 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $598.21 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +7.5%.
- Net Sales- End-Use Market Excluding Surcharge Revenue- Surcharge revenue: $138.9 million versus $133.03 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +7.8% change.
- Net Sales- Intersegment: $-16.8 million compared to the $-32.52 million average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of -14.3% year over year.
- Net Sales- Performance Engineered Products: $83.2 million versus $97.43 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -12.4% change.
- Net Sales- Specialty Alloys Operations: $661.6 million compared to the $666.33 million average estimate based on two analysts. The reported number represents a change of +10% year over year.
- Operating Income- Corporate: $-26.2 million compared to the $-26.32 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Operating Income- Performance Engineered Products: $6.9 million versus $9.57 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Operating Income- Specialty Alloys Operations: $174.6 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $170.94 million.
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Shares of Carpenter have returned +5.3% 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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