What To Look For From ENR

Battery and lighting company Energizer (NYSE:ENR) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what to look for.

Energizer beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.1% last quarter, reporting revenues of $725.3 million, up 3.4% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ gross margin estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Energizer’s revenue to grow 2.6% year on year to $826.3 million, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.16 per share.

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Energizer has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates four times over the last two years.

Looking at Energizer’s peers in the household products segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Clorox’s revenues decreased 18.9% year on year, beating analysts’ expectations by 2%, and Reynolds reported revenues up 2.3%, topping estimates by 3.4%. Clorox traded up 1.2% following the results while Reynolds was also up 7.9%.

Read our full analysis of Clorox’s results here and Reynolds’s results here.

Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the household products stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 5.1% on average over the last month. Energizer is down 1.6% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $30.43 (compared to the current share price of $24.05).

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