For the quarter ended December 2025, CBRE Group (CBRE) reported revenue of $11.63 billion, up 11.8% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $2.73, compared to $2.32 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.02% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $11.51 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $2.66, the EPS surprise was +2.63%.
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 CBRE performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Investment Management AUM: $155.00 billion versus $158.46 billion estimated by two analysts on average.
- Revenue- Pass through costs also recognized as revenue: $4.65 billion versus $4.83 billion estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +8.9% change.
- Pass-through costs also recognized as revenue- Project Management: $1.26 billion versus $1.25 billion estimated by three analysts on average.
- Revenue- Building Operations & Experience: $6.31 billion compared to the $6.32 billion average estimate based on three analysts.
- Pass-through costs also recognized as revenue- Building Operations & Experience: $3.38 billion compared to the $3.58 billion average estimate based on three analysts.
- Revenue- Corporate, Other and Eliminations: $-30 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $-24.15 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +2900%.
- Revenue- Pass through costs also recognized as revenue- Advisory Services: $11 million compared to the $18.65 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of -59.3% year over year.
- Total segment operating profit (loss)- Advisory Services: $709 million versus $757.14 million estimated by four analysts on average.
- Operating income- Project Management: $138 million versus $173.21 million estimated by four analysts on average.
- Operating income- Building Operations & Experience: $211 million compared to the $303.79 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Total segment operating profit (loss)- Real Estate Investments: $201 million compared to the $164.17 million average estimate based on three analysts.
- Total segment operating profit (loss)- Corporate, Other and Eliminations: $-129 million versus $-133.03 million estimated by two analysts on average.
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Shares of CBRE have returned -9.4% 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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