Whirlpool (WHR) ended the recent trading session at $89.93, demonstrating a -2.36% change from the preceding day's closing price. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.47%. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.11%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 0.94%.
Shares of the maker of Maytag, KitchenAid and other appliances witnessed a gain of 4.5% over the previous month, beating the performance of the Consumer Discretionary sector with its gain of 3.04%, and the S&P 500's gain of 2.32%.
The investment community will be closely monitoring the performance of Whirlpool in its forthcoming earnings report. The company is scheduled to release its earnings on October 27, 2025. On that day, Whirlpool is projected to report earnings of $1.38 per share, which would represent a year-over-year decline of 59.77%. Meanwhile, the latest consensus estimate predicts the revenue to be $3.88 billion, indicating a 2.9% decrease compared to the same quarter of the previous year.
WHR's full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $6.32 per share and revenue of $15.41 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of -48.24% and -7.19%, respectively.
Investors should also pay attention to any latest changes in analyst estimates for Whirlpool. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, upbeat changes in estimates indicate analysts' favorable outlook on the business health and profitability.
Empirical research indicates that these revisions in estimates have a direct correlation with impending stock price performance. To benefit from this, we have developed the Zacks Rank, a proprietary model which takes these estimate changes into account and provides an actionable rating system.
The Zacks Rank system, running from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), holds an admirable track record of superior performance, independently audited, with #1 stocks contributing an average annual return of +25% since 1988. The Zacks Consensus EPS estimate remained stagnant within the past month. Whirlpool is holding a Zacks Rank of #5 (Strong Sell) right now.
Digging into valuation, Whirlpool currently has a Forward P/E ratio of 14.57. This represents no noticeable deviation compared to its industry average Forward P/E of 14.57.
The Household Appliances industry is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector. This industry currently has a Zacks Industry Rank of 234, which puts it in the bottom 6% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank is ordered from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
