Although the revenue and EPS for Dow Inc. (DOW) give a sense of how its business performed in the quarter ended March 2025, it might be worth considering how some key metrics compare with Wall Street estimates and the year-ago numbers.
DOW achieves sixth straight quarter of year-over-year volume growth amid a challenging macroeconomic environment in Q1.
The early hours of Thursday look like we are going to see a bit of ‘give back' from the US indices after a strong move higher. This makes sense, as the market will continue to move on the latest noise from tariffs, and the earnings season is going on at
Dow Inc. (DOW) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.02 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.02 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.56 per share a year ago.
Going against the grain often works in investing. Several of the most successful investors are contrarians by nature.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) tends to hold its own a bit better than the S&P 500 and a lot better than the Nasdaq 100 when the stock market flirts with bear market territory.
DOW is expected to have benefited from its productivity initiatives amid headwinds from soft demand and pricing and cost pressures in Q1.
US stocks are expected to bounce back a tad on Tuesday after a tumultuous start to the week as financial markets were gripped by political tension and investor nerves over trade and monetary policy. Futures markets are pointing to gains of 0.8% for the three main stock indexes, a day after the Dow Jones plunged 2.5%, S&P 500 dropped 2.4% and the Nasdaq fell 2.6%.
The three major US indices that I follow are all looking very weak in the premarket trading hours of Monday. This is a continuation of everything that we have seen recently, as there are still concerns about the tariff war.
Besides Wall Street's top -and-bottom-line estimates for Dow Inc. (DOW), review projections for some of its key metrics to gain a deeper understanding of how the company might have fared during the quarter ended March 2025.
This morning, it's the blue-chip Dow Jones Index's turn to bring a disappointing performance. After yesterday's trade tariffs hit a snag with semiconductors to China sent the tech-heavy Nasdaq on a steeper decline, this morning's Q1 earnings miss from Dow component UnitedHealthcare is helping send that index -600 points at this hour.
UnitedHealth weighed on the Dow, plummeting 17% after lowering its annual profit forecast on expectations of high medical costs for the rest of the year.