Brady (NYSE:BRC) Releases FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Brady (NYSE:BRC) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Friday. The company provided EPS guidance of 4.400-4.700 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of 4.420. The company issued revenue guidance of -. Brady also updated its FY25 guidance to $4.40-$4.70 EPS.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Separately, StockNews.com lowered Brady from a strong-buy rating to a buy rating in a research note on Saturday.

Brady Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE BRC traded up $0.38 during trading hours on Friday, reaching $72.19. The stock had a trading volume of 1,007,916 shares, compared to its average volume of 283,851. The company has a market cap of $3.43 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 18.42, a PEG ratio of 2.20 and a beta of 0.76. Brady has a twelve month low of $51.35 and a twelve month high of $76.82. The business’s fifty day moving average is $70.06 and its two-hundred day moving average is $64.41. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.06, a current ratio of 2.06 and a quick ratio of 1.45.

Brady (NYSE:BRC) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Friday, September 6th. The industrial products company reported $1.19 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.11 by $0.08. Brady had a net margin of 14.22% and a return on equity of 19.61%. The company had revenue of $343.40 million during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $351.74 million. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.04 EPS. The business’s revenue was down .7% on a year-over-year basis. As a group, research analysts expect that Brady will post 4.13 EPS for the current year.

Brady Increases Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Thursday, October 31st. Shareholders of record on Thursday, October 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.24 per share. This is a boost from Brady’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.24. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, October 10th. This represents a $0.96 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.33%. Brady’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 23.98%.

About Brady

Brady Corporation manufactures and supplies identification solutions (IDS) and workplace safety (WPS) products to identify and protect premises, products, and people in the United States and internationally. The company offers materials, printing systems, RFID, and bar code scanners for product identification, brand protection labeling, work in process labeling, finished product identification, and industrial track and trace applications; safety signs, floor-marking tapes, pipe markers, labeling systems, spill control products, lockout/tagout device, and software and services for safety compliance auditing, procedure writing, and training; and hand-held printers, wire markers, sleeves, and tags for wire identification.