For the quarter ended December 2025, Rogers Communication (RCI) reported revenue of $4.43 billion, up 13% over the same period last year. EPS came in at $1.08, compared to $1.04 in the year-ago quarter.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of +1.31% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $4.37 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.98, the EPS surprise was +10.77%.
While investors scrutinize revenue and earnings changes year-over-year and how they compare with Wall Street expectations to determine their next move, some key metrics always offer a more accurate picture of a company's financial health.
As these metrics influence top- and bottom-line performance, comparing them to the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated helps investors project a stock's price performance more accurately.
Here is how Rogers Communication performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:- Wireless Subscriber - Postpaid mobile phone - Gross additions: 507 thousand versus the two-analyst average estimate of 499 thousand.
- Home Phone - Total Home Phone Subscriber: 1.39 million versus 1.4 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Wireless Subscriber - Total Postpaid mobile phone subscribers: 11 million versus 11.01 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Wireless Subscriber - Postpaid churn: 1.4% compared to the 1.4% average estimate based on two analysts.
- Wireless Subscriber - Prepaid mobile phone - Gross additions: 93 thousand versus 100.91 thousand estimated by two analysts on average.
- Wireless Subscriber - Prepaid mobile phone - Net additions: 2 thousand versus -5.49 thousand estimated by two analysts on average.
- Wireless Subscriber - Total prepaid mobile phone subscribers: 1.2 million versus the two-analyst average estimate of 1.2 million.
- Wireless Subscriber - Prepaid churn: 2.6% compared to the 3% average estimate based on two analysts.
- Cable Subscriber - Homes passed: 10.51 million versus 10.49 million estimated by two analysts on average.
- Cable Subscriber - Net additions: 11 thousand versus 11.06 thousand estimated by two analysts on average.
- Cable Subscriber - Total Customer Relationships: 4.86 million compared to the 4.86 million average estimate based on two analysts.
- Retail Internet - Net Additions: 22 thousand versus 20.07 thousand estimated by two analysts on average.
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