Legget & Platt (LEG) Reports Q2 Earnings: What Key Metrics Have to Say

While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.

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 Legget & Platt performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:

• Change in Organic Sales - Bedding Products: -1% versus the three-analyst average estimate of -3.6%.
• Change in Organic Sales - Specialized Products: -3% compared to the -1.7% average estimate based on three analysts.
• Change in Organic Sales - Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products: 1% compared to the -1.6% average estimate based on three analysts.
• Trade sales- Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products: $365.8 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $356.22 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of +0.9%.
• Trade sales- Specialized Products: $247 million versus $251.9 million estimated by three analysts on average. Compared to the year-ago quarter, this number represents a -18.8% change.
• Trade sales- Bedding Products: $386.9 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $376.32 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -1.2%.
• EBIT- Bedding Products: $42.1 million compared to the $26.49 million average estimate based on two analysts.
• EBIT- Intersegment eliminations and other: $-10.1 million versus $-3 million estimated by two analysts on average.
• EBIT- Furniture, Flooring and Textile Products: $28.9 million compared to the $19 million average estimate based on two analysts.
• EBIT- Specialized Products: $19.2 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of $25.12 million.

View all Key Company Metrics for Legget & Platt here>>>

Shares of Legget & Platt have returned -7.7% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's +3.3% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), indicating that it could outperform the broader market in the near term.

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