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Badger Meter Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call - 13% Sales Growth, Record Free Cash Flow and Raised Normalized Gross Margin to 39% to 42%
Badger Meter delivered a clean, resilient quarter: total sales rose 13% year over year to $236 million, BASE sales up 8%, operating earnings climbed 13% and free cash flow hit a record $48.2 million. ...
- Total sales of $236 million in Q3 2025, up 13% year over year, with BASE sales growth of 8% excluding SmartCover.
- Management defines BASE metrics as excluding the SmartCover acquisition for comparability.
- Operating earnings rose 13% year over year to $46.1 million, with operating margin of 19.6%.
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Community Financial System, Inc. Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Record operating EPS as diversified businesses drive high-return capital deployment
Community Financial System posted a clean quarter, with record operating earnings per share and broad-based revenue gains across banking, insurance, benefits, and wealth. Net interest income expanded ...
- GAAP EPS for Q3 2025 was $1.04, up 25.3% year over year; operating EPS was $1.09, up from $0.88 a year ago and a quarterly record.
- Total operating revenues hit a quarterly high of $206.8 million, driven by both net interest income and non-interest revenue growth across all four business lines.
- Net interest income was $128.2 million, up 13.7% year over year and marking the sixth consecutive quarter of NII expansion.
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Northrop Grumman Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Revenue Guidance Trimmed as Timing Delays Bite, B-21 Acceleration and Missile Defense Provide Upside
Northrop delivered a workmanlike quarter: solid organic growth, expanding margins, and a big jump in cash. Management beat on execution but trimmed full-year revenue as timing slippage and uncertain a...
- Q3 revenue $10.4 billion, up 4% year over year and up 5% organically.
- Company reported a Q3 book-to-bill of 1.17, with international sales up 32% in the quarter and 20% year to date.
- Segment operating margin rose to 12.3% in Q3; diluted EPS was $7.67, a 10% increase year over year.
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Mercantile Bank Corporation Q3 2025 Earnings Call - NIM Holds Near 3.5% as Clean Credit Meets an Accretive M&A
Mercantile reported a tidy quarter: net income $23.8 million, EPS $1.46, with a quarter-over-quarter EPS jump of 20% and ROA and ROE of 1.5% and 14.7% respectively. The bank leaned on match funding an...
- Net income for Q3 2025 was $23.8 million, or $1.46 per diluted share, up from $19.6 million, or $1.22 per diluted share, in Q3 2024.
- Net interest margin held essentially steady at about 3.5%, declining only 2 basis points over the last five quarters despite a 96 basis point decline in the SOFR 90-day average rate.
- Average loans were $4.6 billion in Q3, up roughly $201 million year over year (about 4%), while average deposits grew to $4.83 billion, up $489 million or over 11% year over year.
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Pentair Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Record margins and higher guidance as transformation and Hydrostat deal drive momentum
Pentair delivered a tidy quarter of execution. Q3 sales rose 3% to $1.022 billion, adjusted operating income climbed 10% to $263 million, return on sales expanded 160 basis points to 25.7%, and adjust...
- Q3 financials: sales up 3% to $1.022 billion, adjusted operating income up 10% to $263 million, adjusted EPS $1.24, up 14% year over year.
- Return on sales expanded 160 basis points to 25.7% in Q3, marking a record third quarter ROS post-2018 separation.
- Management raised full-year 2025 guidance to approximately 2% sales growth and adjusted EPS of $4.85 to $4.90, a 12% to 13% increase from 2024.
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Philip Morris International Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Smoke-free momentum drives record margins and lifts EPS guidance
Philip Morris posted a strong Q3, powered by faster-than-industry growth across its smoke-free franchises IQOS, ZYN, and VEEV. Smoke-free scale and pricing pushed quarterly smoke-free gross profit abo...
- Q3 delivered record smoke-free profitability, with quarterly smoke-free gross profit topping $3 billion for the first time.
- Adjusted diluted EPS reached $2.24 in Q3, up 17.3% year on year, helped by a $0.08 currency tailwind and a favorable tax rate.
- Adjusted operating income margin expanded to about 43.1% in Q3, the highest in almost four years, driven by smoke-free mix, pricing and cost efficiency.
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Halliburton Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call - $100M/quarter cost cuts, $1B 2026 CapEx reset and a strategic Voltagrid push
Halliburton reported a solid Q3 with $5.6 billion revenue, 13% adjusted operating margin and $276 million free cash flow, but management clearly shifted to defense mode. Leadership is cutting costs, i...
- Revenue $5.6 billion in Q3 2025, up 2% sequentially, adjusted operating margin 13% and adjusted operating income $748 million.
- North America revenue $2.4 billion, flat year over year and up 5% sequentially, but management expects Q4 North America to be down roughly 12% to 13% sequentially due to white space and seasonality.
- International revenue $3.2 billion, roughly flat sequentially, with management forecasting a 3% to 4% increase in Q4 on seasonal software and completion tool sales.
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Elevance Health Third Quarter 2025 Earnings Call - Reaffirmed $30 EPS, warns of at least 125 bps Medicaid margin hit in 2026
Elevance reiterated its 2025 adjusted EPS target of approximately $30 while flagging renewed pressure in Medicaid that management expects will drive at least a 125 basis point year‑over‑year margin de...
- Company reaffirmed 2025 adjusted EPS of approximately $30, and continues to view $27 as an appropriate baseline excluding about $3 of discrete nonrecurring items.
- Q3 GAAP diluted EPS was $5.32; Q3 adjusted diluted EPS was $6.30.
- Total operating revenue for the quarter was $50.1 billion, up 12% year over year; medical membership ended the quarter at 45.4 million.
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PulteGroup Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Strong margins and cash flow while managing elevated spec inventory
PulteGroup posted a solid Q3 2025: $4.2 billion in home sale revenue, $568 million in net income, and $2.96 per share, driven by healthy margins and cash generation even as demand softened. Management...
- Q3 financials: Home sale revenue $4.2 billion, net income $568 million, EPS $2.96; trailing twelve month ROE at 21%.
- Closings and orders: 7,529 homes closed in Q3, net new orders 6,638 homes, down 6% year over year. Absorption 2.2 homes per month, versus 2.4 a year ago.
- Backlog and production: Q3 backlog 9,888 homes valued at $6.2 billion, down from 12,089 homes worth $7.7 billion a year earlier. 15,096 homes in production, 7,369 or 49% are spec. Finished spec inventory around 2,000 homes, roughly two per community, above the target of ~1.2 per community.
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Crown Holdings Q3 2025 Earnings Call - Hits 2.5x Leverage, Raises EPS Guide on Strong Europe and Cash Flow
Crown reported a clean, cash-heavy quarter. Adjusted EPS beat, free cash flow ramped, and management hit its long-term net leverage target of 2.5 times in September, prompting a sharper tone on return...
- Reported GAAP EPS $1.85 in Q3 versus a loss of $1.47 in the year-ago quarter; adjusted EPS $2.24 versus $1.99 prior year.
- Net sales rose 4.2% year over year, driven by a 12% shipment increase in European beverage, raw material pass-throughs, and favorable FX, offset by lower volumes in Latin America.
- Segment income improved to $490 million from $472 million a year earlier, reflecting European volume gains, tinplate strength, and global operational improvements.
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