Shares of natural food company Hain Celestial (NASDAQ:HAIN)
fell 49% in the afternoon session after the company reported underwhelming first quarter 2025 results as it missed across revenue, EPS, and EBITDA, and its full-year EBITDA guidance fell short of Wall Street's estimates. Revenue was down 11%, and margins slipped a bit too, hurt by heavier discounting and slower demand. Overall, this quarter could have been better.
Hain Celestial (NASDAQ:HAIN) posted a disappointing Q3 FY25, with revenue down 11% YoY to $390.35M and EPS missing at $0.07 vs. $0.13 expected. North American organic sales dropped 10%, hitting snacks and baby categories.
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Natural food company Hain Celestial (NASDAQ:HAIN) fell short of the market’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales falling 11% year on year to $390.4 million. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.07 per share was 44.5% below analysts’ consensus estimates.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled a cautious stance on future monetary policy decisions during a speech in Chicago, emphasizing that trade tariffs could add upward pressure to inflation in the short term and complicate the Fed's efforts to stabilize the economy. He warned that such trade measures are "likely to move us further away from our goals," referring to the Fed's dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment.
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Hain Celestial has gotten torched over the last six months - since October 2024, its stock price has dropped 58.9% to $3.45 per share. This was partly driven by its softer quarterly results and may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.
A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after markets gave up early gains with optimism over progress in US-China trade talks quickly fading as the Trump administration announced plans to raise tariffs on all Chinese imports to well above 100%.
Shares of natural food company Hain Celestial (NASDAQ:HAIN)
fell 6.8% in the afternoon session after President Trump announced "reciprocal tariffs" on all US imports, set at a minimum rate of 10%.
The end of the earnings season is always a good time to take a step back and see who shined (and who not so much). Let’s take a look at how shelf-stable food stocks fared in Q4, starting with Simply Good Foods (NASDAQ:SMPL).
As the Q4 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the shelf-stable food industry, including Hain Celestial (NASDAQ:HAIN) and its peers.
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Shares of natural food company Hain Celestial (NASDAQ:HAIN)
fell 22.5% in the morning session after the company reported weak fourth-quarter results: its revenue, EBITDA, and EPS missed significantly. The company attributed the weak performance to "poor in-store performance in snacks, driven by marketing and promotion effectiveness, and supply chain challenges." Overall, this was a poor quarter.
