For the quarter ended December 2025, Spectrum Brands (SPB) reported revenue of $677 million, down 3.3% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $1.40, compared to $1.02 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $666 million, representing a surprise of +1.65%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of +82.7%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $0.77.
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.
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 Spectrum performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Net Sales- Home & Personal Care (HPC): $321.5 million versus $322.85 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -7.6% change.
- Net Sales- Home & Garden (H&G): $73.9 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $81.06 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -19.8%.
- Net Sales- Global Pet Care (GPC): $281.6 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $267.8 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +8.3%.
- Adjusted EBITDA- Global Pet Care (GPC): $49 million compared to the $50.83 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Adjusted EBITDA- Home & Personal Care (HPC): $20.7 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $23.46 million.
- Adjusted EBITDA- Home & Garden (H&G): $4.5 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $7.54 million.
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Shares of Spectrum have returned +9.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +0.5% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #4 (Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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