Landstar System (LSTR) reported $1.15 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 1.6%. EPS of $0.85 for the same period compares to $1.32 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.95% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.13 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.92, the EPS surprise was -7.61%.
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 Landstar performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Revenue per load - Ocean and air cargo carriers: $7,197 versus the three-analyst average estimate of $6,579.53.
- Revenue per load - Rail Intermodal: $2,843 versus $3,170.29 estimated by three analysts on average.
- Number of loads - Total: 500,170 compared to the 484,455 average estimate based on three analysts.
- Number of loads - Truck Transportation: 484,900 compared to the 468,390 average estimate based on three analysts.
- Investment income: $3.60 million compared to the $2.88 million average estimate based on six analysts. The reported number represents a change of +5.5% year over year.
- Revenue: $1.15 billion compared to the $1.13 billion average estimate based on six analysts. The reported number represents a change of -1.6% year over year.
- Revenue- Other: $19.66 million versus the five-analyst average estimate of $23.67 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -22.4%.
- Revenue- Rail Intermodal: $17.49 million compared to the $21.94 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of -23% year over year.
- Revenue- Truck Transportation: $1.05 billion compared to the $1.02 billion average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of -1.8% year over year.
- Revenue- Ocean and air cargo carriers: $65.64 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $60.40 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +21.4%.
- Revenue- Truck Transportation- Other Truck transportation: $92.08 million compared to the $74.63 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of +28% year over year.
- Revenue- Truck Transportation- Less-than-truckload: $22.44 million compared to the $25.58 million average estimate based on three analysts. The reported number represents a change of -12.4% year over year.
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Shares of Landstar have returned +1.8% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +9.1% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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