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

Brady (NYSE:BRC) issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday. The industrial products company reported $1.00 earnings per share (EPS) 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 period in the prior year, the business earned $0.93 EPS. Brady updated its FY 2025 guidance to 4.450-4.700 EPS.

Brady Price Performance

Shares of NYSE:BRC traded down $5.17 during trading hours on Friday, hitting $69.41. 175,785 shares of the company’s stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 218,309. Brady has a 52 week low of $56.09 and a 52 week high of $77.68. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11, a quick ratio of 1.25 and a current ratio of 1.84. The company’s fifty day simple moving average is $74.18 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $73.81. The company has a market cap of $3.32 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.06 and a beta of 0.76.

Brady Announces Dividend

The firm also recently disclosed 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 of this dividend was Friday, January 10th. This represents a $0.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.38%. Brady’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 23.59%.

Brady Company Profile

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.