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Procter & Gamble Stock Slips Despite Earnings Beat as Q3 Sales Miss Estimates

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Key Takeaways

  • Consumer products giant Procter & Gamble reported third-quarter earnings Friday that beat estimates, though its revenue missed expectations.
  • P&G also maintained its full-year outlook for sales growth, and increased projections for earnings per share.
  • Shares dropped slightly following the earnings report's release.

Procter & Gamble (PG) reported third-quarter earnings Friday that bea𒀰t estimates, though its reveꦯnue missed expectations, sending shares 1% lower in pre-market trading.

P&G reported adjusted net income of $3.76 billion and 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:earnings per share (EPS) of $1.52, which both rose about 11% from the year-ago period and beat analyst estimates compiled by Visible Alpha. However, revenue increased 1% year-over-year to $20.2 billion, missing estimates.

Analysts had suggested ahead of Friday's earnings report that slowing price increases could hold back P&G's revenue growth. The company reported price increases of about 3%, just above the 2.75% analysts had predicted, and the smallest hike since the second quarter of 2022.

Analysts slightly lowered their revenue estimaꦦtes ahead of 🙈the earnings.

Despite the slightly-above-expected price hike, the company still saw strong organic sales, with sales increasing in every segment except Baby and Feminine Care.

  Q3 2024 Analyst Estimates for Q3 2024 Q3 2023  Year-over-year (%) change
Revenue $20.2B $20.43B $20.07B 1%
Adjusted Earnings Per Share $1.52 $1.41 $1.37 11%
Adjusted Net Income $3.76B  $3.47B $3.40B 10.59%

P&G also adjusted some of its guidance for the full fiscal year, raising EPS expectations to an increase 1% to 2% above the fiscal 2023 mark of $5.90, compared to🎃 prior projections of a 1% decline to flat. The company affirmed its guidance for net sales, continuing to project 2% to 4% growth compared to last year.

The Fabric and Home Care segment was P&G's largest in terms of revenue across fiscal 2023, with brands like Tide, Gain, and Dawn dish soap representing 35% of net sales. Baby and Feminine Care was the second-largest sector in 2023, with Pampers and Tampax among others making up one-quarter of P&G's sales.

P&G shares dropped about 1.3% in pre-market trading to $155.31 as of about 8:20 a.m. ET following the release. Still, shareꦚs have gained close to 6% year to date.

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