What Happened?
Shares of concrete and waste management company Concrete Pumping (NASDAQ: BBCP) jumped 10.1% in the morning session after the company reported mixed second-quarter 2025 results but provided strong full-year guidance. For the quarter, the company posted revenue of $103.7 million, beating the consensus estimate of $100.3 million, even though sales declined by 5.4% year-over-year. Its GAAP earnings per share of $0.07 was in line with Wall Street's expectations. Despite the mixed current results, investors appeared to focus on the company's positive outlook. Management reconfirmed its full-year revenue guidance of $385 million at the midpoint, slightly ahead of analyst forecasts. More notably, its full-year adjusted EBITDA guidance of $97.5 million also topped consensus estimates, signaling confidence in future profitability.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
Concrete Pumping’s shares are very volatile and have had 23 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for Concrete Pumping and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 22 days ago when the stock dropped 3.6% on the news that an unexpectedly sharp rise in wholesale inflation fueled concerns about rising costs and their impact on corporate profits. The primary catalyst was the July 2025 Producer Price Index (PPI), a measure of inflation at the wholesale level, which jumped 0.9% against forecasts of a 0.2% rise. This represents the most significant monthly increase in over three years, pointing to mounting cost pressures for manufacturers, with tariffs cited as a key factor. This data complicates the Federal Reserve's upcoming interest rate decisions, as persistent inflation may prevent rate cuts, creating a headwind for cyclical sectors like Industrials.
Concrete Pumping is up 13.9% since the beginning of the year, but at $7.55 per share, it is still trading 16.5% below its 52-week high of $9.04 from January 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Concrete Pumping’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $1,906.
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