Baxter stock (NYSE: BAX), a healthcare company, has seen its stock decline by 14% over the past month. This drop followed a disappointing earnings report where the company also reduced its full-year guidance, partly due to Hurricane Helene impacting one of its manufacturing facilities.
Baxter International (BAX) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.59 per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.6 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.68 per share a year ago.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Baxter (BAX) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended June 2025, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
Besides Wall Street's top-and-bottom-line estimates for Baxter (BAX), review projections for some of its key metrics to gain a deeper understanding of how the company might have fared during the quarter ended June 2025.
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Baxter International's stock has been challenging to own for the past decade, initially due to high valuations and later due to execution concerns and an ugly acquisition. During the pandemic, health care stocks, including Baxter, underperformed expectations, with BAX peaking in April 2020 before declining. But the divestiture of the kidney care business will help the balance sheet, and management is optimistic toward 2025 performance.
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX ) Q1 2025 Earnings Conference Call May 1, 2025 8:30 AM ET Company Participants Clare Trachtman - Senior Vice President and Chief Investor Relations Officer Brent Shafer - Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer Heather Knight - Chief Operating Officer Joel Grade - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Conference Call Participants Joanne Wuensch - Citi David Roman - Goldman Sachs Travis Steed - BofA Securities Vijay Kumar - Evercore ISI Robbie Marcus - JPMorgan Larry Biegelsen - Wells Pito Chickering - Deutsche Bank Danielle Antalffy - UBS Operator Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Baxter International's First Quarter 2025 Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this call is being recorded by Baxter and is copyrighted material.
Baxter reports better-than-expected first-quarter results. However, the company's gross margin contracts.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Baxter (BAX) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended March 2025, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.