FMC Technologies (FTI) reported $2.23 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 9.4%. EPS of $0.33 for the same period compares to $0.22 a year ago.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.26 billion, representing a surprise of -1.07%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of -8.33%, with the consensus EPS estimate being $0.36.
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 FMC Technologies performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Inbound Orders - Subsea Technologies: $2.79 billion compared to the $2.47 billion average estimate based on 15 analysts.
- Order Backlog - Subsea Technologies: $14.95 billion compared to the $14.06 billion average estimate based on 15 analysts.
- Order Backlog - Total: $15.82 billion versus $14.98 billion estimated by 14 analysts on average.
- Inbound Orders - Total: $3.09 billion versus $2.78 billion estimated by 14 analysts on average.
- Order Backlog - Surface Technologies: $870.40 million compared to the $909.26 million average estimate based on 13 analysts.
- Inbound Orders - Surface Technologies: $303.60 million compared to the $317.59 million average estimate based on 13 analysts.
- Book-to-bill - Subsea: 1 versus 1 estimated by 13 analysts on average.
- Revenue- Subsea Technologies: $1.94 billion versus the 18-analyst average estimate of $1.96 billion. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +11.6%.
- Revenue- Surface Technologies: $297.40 million versus the 18-analyst average estimate of $290.59 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -3.2%.
- Revenue- Lease: $61.40 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $59.31 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -1.4%.
- Revenue- Product: $868.20 million versus $785.57 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a +6.7% change.
- Revenue- Service: $1.30 billion compared to the $1.41 billion average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +11.9% year over year.
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Shares of FMC Technologies have returned -18.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -5.1% 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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