What Happened?
Shares of egg and butter company Vital Farms (NASDAQ: VITL) jumped 14.2% in the morning session after the company reported strong third-quarter 2025 financial results that surpassed Wall Street's expectations and raised its full-year forecast.
Vital Farms posted quarterly earnings of $0.36 per share, easily beating analysts' average estimate of $0.30 per share. This figure more than doubled the earnings of $0.16 per share from the same period in the previous year. Revenue for the quarter came in at $198.9 million, a 37.2% increase year-over-year, which also topped forecasts. Based on this strong performance, Vital Farms increased its financial outlook for the full year. The company now expects net revenue of around $775 million and adjusted EBITDA of around $115 million, signaling confidence in its continued growth.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
Vital Farms’s shares are very volatile and have had 22 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for Vital Farms and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.
The biggest move we wrote about over the last year was 6 months ago when the stock dropped 9.1% on the news that the company reported weak first quarter 2025 results which significantly beat analysts' EPS and EBITDA expectations, although its full-year EBITDA guidance slightly missed. The company stuck to its revenue forecast but guided EBITDA a bit lower than expected, citing supply constraints and macro uncertainty. Overall, we think this was still a solid quarter.
Vital Farms is down 6% since the beginning of the year, and at $36.51 per share, it is trading 30.3% below its 52-week high of $52.41 from August 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Vital Farms’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $1,034.
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