
Conagra Q1 FY2027 Earnings: EPS Up 6% on Falling Sales, and a Flour Mill Is Why
Conagra's Q1 FY2027 EPS rose 5.9% to $0.36 while sales fell 1.4% and volume 2.1%. Lower overhead and a flour-mill joint venture, not food, drove the gain.
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Conagra's Q1 FY2027 EPS rose 5.9% to $0.36 while sales fell 1.4% and volume 2.1%. Lower overhead and a flour-mill joint venture, not food, drove the gain.

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Lamb Weston's Q1 FY2027 net sales rose 1% to $1.67B while net income fell 55% to $29.1M. Plant-closure and legal charges put $51M into cost of sales.

Ulta's Q2 FY2026 sales rose 8.9% to $3.04B on 3.8% comps, with operating income up 10.1% to $379.6M and no tariff refund in the margin.

BlackBerry's Q2 FY2027 revenue rose 26% to $163.3M on a record $80.3M QNX quarter, lifting net income to $33.9M — a sixth straight GAAP profit.

Cal-Maine's conventional egg price fell 59.3% in Q1 FY2027, turning $199.3M of profit into a $58.6M loss. Five years of filings show the full commodity cycle.

Cintas Q1 FY2027 revenue rose 10.9% to $3.01B with a record 51.5% gross margin; five years of filings show which cost lines moved it.

H&M's Q3 2026 operating profit rose 23% to SEK 6,037M on 0.3% sales growth; strip out 1.6 margin points of one-off tariff effects and it's ~4%.

Inditex H1 2026 sales rose 7.6% to €19.8B and net income 6.8% to €2.98B, but Zara segment profit grew just 2.5% as operating costs outran sales.

RPM's Q1 FY2027 sales rose 4.8% to $2.22B and net income 12.6%, but gross margin fell to 41.3%; $15.7M of one-time gains flattered profit.

THOR Industries' FY2026 sales were flat at $9.61B, but net income fell 31% to $177.5M as gross margin slid from 14.0% to 12.6%. See the open ledger.

UNFI swung from a $118M loss to $84M profit on $31.2B of sales, a 0.27% margin; $50M of insurance recoveries and a $37M LIFO benefit won't repeat.