Valvoline (VVV) reported $403.2 million in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year increase of 3.7%. EPS of $0.34 for the same period compares to $0.37 a year ago.
The reported revenue compares to the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $404.05 million, representing a surprise of -0.21%. The company delivered an EPS surprise of -5.56%, 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.
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 Valvoline performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Same-store sales growth: 5.8% versus 5.5% estimated by six analysts on average.
- System-wide stores - Franchised stores: 1,128 versus 1,131 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Total System-wide stores: 2,078 versus the four-analyst average estimate of 2,088.
- Same-store sales growth - Company-operated: 4.8% versus 5.3% estimated by four analysts on average.
- Same-store sales growth - Franchised: 6.6% versus the four-analyst average estimate of 5.6%.
- System-wide stores - Company-operated stores: 950 versus 957 estimated by four analysts on average.
- Stores Opened - Franchised: 17 versus 17 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Stores Opened - Company-operated: 12 versus the three-analyst average estimate of 22.
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Shares of Valvoline have returned +3.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +11.3% 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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