Core Scientific, Inc. (CORZ) reported $79.76 million in revenue for the quarter ended December 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 16%. EPS of -$0.29 for the same period compares to -$0.01 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -11.77% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $90.4 million. With the consensus EPS estimate being -$0.27, the EPS surprise was -7.41%.
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.
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 Core Scientific, Inc. performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Revenue- Digital asset hosted mining revenue from customers: $6.26 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $4.89 million.
- Revenue- Colocation revenue: $31.34 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $43 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +267.8%.
- Revenue- Digital asset self-mining revenue: $42.17 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $53.8 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -51.2%.
- Digital Asset Self-Mining gross (loss) profit: $3.5 million versus $-1.36 million estimated by three analysts on average.
- Colocation gross profit: $14.26 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $8.12 million.
- Digital Asset Hosted Mining gross profit: $3 million versus $1.73 million estimated by three analysts on average.
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Shares of Core Scientific, Inc. have returned -5.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -1.3% 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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