Brady (NYSE:BRC) Releases Earnings Results, Misses Estimates By $0.03 EPS

Brady (NYSE:BRC) posted its earnings results on Friday. The industrial products company reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.03 by ($0.03), RTT News reports. Brady had a net margin of 14.19% and a return on equity of 19.79%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.93 earnings per share. Brady updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.450-4.700 EPS.

Brady Trading Down 6.3 %

Shares of NYSE:BRC traded down $4.69 on Friday, hitting $69.89. 159,710 shares of the company’s stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 217,980. Brady has a 12 month low of $56.09 and a 12 month high of $77.68. The stock has a market capitalization of $3.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.30 and a beta of 0.76. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $74.18 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $73.81. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11, a current ratio of 1.84 and a quick ratio of 1.25.

Brady Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, January 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 10th were given a dividend of $0.24 per share. The ex-dividend date was Friday, January 10th. This represents a $0.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.37%. Brady’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 23.59%.

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.