BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) Surprises With Q1 Sales But Stock Drops

Nutrition products company Bellring Brands (NYSE:BRBR) beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 18.9% year on year to $588 million. On the other hand, the company’s full-year revenue guidance of $2.3 billion at the midpoint came in 0.7% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.53 per share was in line with analysts’ consensus estimates. Is now the time to buy BellRing Brands? Find out in our full research report. Revenue: $588 million vs analyst estimates of $579 million (18.9% year-on-year growth, 1.6% beat) Adjusted EPS: $0.53 vs analyst estimates of $0.53 (in line) Adjusted EBITDA: $118.6 million vs analyst estimates of $118.3 million (20.2% margin, in line) The company reconfirmed its revenue guidance for the full year of $2.3 billion at the midpoint EBITDA guidance for the full year is $485 million at the midpoint, below analyst estimates of $491.5 million Operating Margin: 16.2%, down from 18.4% in the same quarter last year Organic Revenue rose 21.2% year on year (28.3% in the same quarter last year) Sales Volumes rose 17.8% year on year (42.7% in the same quarter last year) Market Capitalization: $10.12 billion Spun out of Post Holdings in 2019, Bellring Brands (NYSE:BRBR) offers protein shakes, nutrition bars, and other products under the PowerBar, Premier Protein, and Dymatize brands. A company’s long-term performance is an indicator of its overall quality. Even a bad business can shine for one or two quarters, but a top-tier one grows for years. With $2.19 billion in revenue over the past 12 months, BellRing Brands is a small consumer staples company, which sometimes brings disadvantages compared to larger competitors benefiting from economies of scale and negotiating leverage with retailers. On the bright side, it can grow faster because it has a longer list of untapped store chains to sell into. As you can see below, BellRing Brands’s 18.9% annualized revenue growth over the last three years was impressive as consumers bought more of its products. BellRing Brands Quarterly Revenue This quarter, BellRing Brands reported year-on-year revenue growth of 18.9%, and its $588 million of revenue exceeded Wall Street’s estimates by 1.6%. Looking ahead, sell-side analysts expect revenue to grow 11.1% over the next 12 months, a deceleration versus the last three years. Despite the slowdown, this projection is commendable and implies the market is baking in success for its products. Today’s young investors likely haven’t read the timeless lessons in Gorilla Game: Picking Winners In High Technology because it was written more than 20 years ago when Microsoft and Apple were first establishing their supremacy. But if we apply the same principles, then enterprise software stocks leveraging their own generative AI capabilities may well be the Gorillas of the future. So, in that spirit, we are excited to present our Special Free Report on a profitable, fast-growing enterprise software stock that is already riding the automation wave and looking to catch the generative AI next.