For the quarter ended March 2025, Brookline Bancorp (BRKL) reported revenue of $91.49 million, up 4.1% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $0.22, compared to $0.16 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -3.61% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $94.92 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.23, the EPS surprise was -4.35%.
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.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how Brookline performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Efficiency Ratio: 65.6% compared to the 65.8% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Net Interest Margin: 3.2% compared to the 3.2% average estimate based on three analysts.
- Average Balance - Total interest-earning assets: $10.88 billion compared to the $11.11 billion average estimate based on two analysts.
- Total Non-Interest Income: $5.66 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $6.56 million.
- Net Interest Income: $85.83 million compared to the $87.47 million average estimate based on three analysts.
- Gain on sales of loans and leases: $0.02 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $0.43 million.
- Other: $2.81 million versus $2.80 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Loan fees: $0.39 million versus $0.60 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Deposit fees: $2.36 million compared to the $2.31 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Loan level derivative income, net: $0.07 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $0.40 million.
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Shares of Brookline have returned -9.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -6.6% 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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