Valmont Industries (VMI) reported $1.04 billion in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 0.1%. EPS of $4.92 for the same period compares to $3.84 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -0.82% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.05 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $4.95, the EPS surprise was -0.54%.
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 Valmont performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Total Sales- Intersegment: $-3.46 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $-3.89 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -20%.
- Net Sales- Agriculture: $221.67 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $230.21 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -19.8%.
- Total Sales- Infrastructure: $819 million versus $820.69 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +7.3% change.
- Total Sales- Agriculture: $222.72 million versus $227.72 million estimated by two analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -19.9% change.
- Net Sales- Infrastructure: $816.59 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $818.97 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +7.3%.
- Adjusted Operating Income- Infrastructure: $149.56 million versus $134.77 million estimated by four analysts on average.
- Adjusted Operating Income- Corporate: $-19.48 million compared to the $-24.49 million average estimate based on four analysts.
- Adjusted Operating Income- Agriculture: $-3.35 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $24.57 million.
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Shares of Valmont have returned +7.2% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -1.4% 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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