For the quarter ended December 2025, Goosehead Insurance (GSHD) reported revenue of $105.26 million, up 12.1% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.64, compared to $0.79 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +9.1% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $96.48 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.54, the EPS surprise was +18.89%.
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 Goosehead performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Total Core Revenue: $78.15 million versus $78.08 million estimated by four analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +15% change.
- Ancillary Revenue- Contingent Commissions: $24.87 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $16.58 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +3.5%.
- Total Cost Recovery Revenue: $1.77 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $1.72 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +14.7%.
- Total Ancillary Revenue: $25.34 million compared to the $16.93 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +3.8% year over year.
- Core Revenue- Agency Fees: $2.54 million compared to the $2.25 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +21.6% year over year.
- Ancillary Revenue- Other Franchise Revenues: $0.48 million versus $0.47 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +21.7% change.
- Cost Recovery Revenue- Initial Franchise Fees: $1.63 million versus $1.45 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +22% change.
- Cost Recovery Revenue- Interest Income: $0.14 million versus $0.18 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -32.4% change.
- Core Revenue- New Business Royalty Fees: $7.13 million versus $7.76 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +6% change.
- Core Revenue- New Business Commissions: $7.15 million compared to the $6.87 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +19.1% year over year.
- Core Revenue- Renewal Royalty Fees: $42.46 million versus $42.1 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +21.3% change.
- Core Revenue- Renewal Commissions: $18.88 million compared to the $19.13 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +3.9% year over year.
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Shares of Goosehead have returned -32% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -1.4% 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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