For the quarter ended December 2025, Bruker (BRKR) reported revenue of $977.2 million, down 0.2% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.59, compared to $0.76 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.12% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $966.4 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.65, the EPS surprise was -9.23%.
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 Bruker performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Organic revenue growth - Total: -5.1% versus -7.4% estimated by three analysts on average.
- Organic revenue growth - Bruker Scientific Instruments (BSI): -5.1% versus -8.2% estimated by two analysts on average.
- Organic revenue growth - Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST): -5.1% compared to the -1.6% average estimate based on two analysts.
- Revenue- Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST): $71.5 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $72.92 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -0.8%.
- Revenue- Eliminations: $-2 million compared to the $-3.5 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of -47.4% year over year.
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Shares of Bruker have returned -13.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -0.3% 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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