Footwear and apparel conglomerate Deckers (NYSE: DECK) reported Q4 CY2025 results exceeding the market’s revenue expectations, with sales up 7.1% year on year to $1.96 billion. The company’s full-year revenue guidance of $5.41 billion at the midpoint came in 0.9% above analysts’ estimates. Its GAAP profit of $3.33 per share was 20.5% above analysts’ consensus estimates.

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Company Overview

Established in 1973, Deckers (NYSE: DECK) is a footwear and apparel conglomerate with a portfolio of lifestyle and performance brands.

Revenue Growth

A company’s long-term sales performance is one signal of its overall quality. Any business can experience short-term success, but top-performing ones enjoy sustained growth for years. Over the last five years, Deckers grew its sales at a 17.9% annual rate. Although this growth is acceptable on an absolute basis, it fell slightly short of our standards for the consumer discretionary sector, which enjoys a number of secular tailwinds.

Long-term growth is the most important, but within consumer discretionary, product cycles are short and revenue can be hit-driven due to rapidly changing trends and consumer preferences. Deckers’s recent performance shows its demand has slowed as its annualized revenue growth of 14.2% over the last two years was below its five-year trend.

We can better understand the company’s sales dynamics by analyzing its constant currency revenue, which excludes currency movements that are outside their control and not indicative of demand. Over the last two years, its constant currency sales averaged 15% year-on-year growth. Because this number aligns with its normal revenue growth, we can see that Deckers has properly hedged its foreign currency exposure.

This quarter, Deckers reported year-on-year revenue growth of 7.1%, and its $1.96 billion of revenue exceeded Wall Street’s estimates by 4.7%.

Looking ahead, sell-side analysts expect revenue to grow 5.2% over the next 12 months, a deceleration versus the last two years. This projection is underwhelming and indicates its products and services will face some demand challenges.

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Operating Margin

Deckers’s operating margin might fluctuated slightly over the last 12 months but has remained more or less the same, averaging 23.7% over the last two years. This profitability was lousy for a consumer discretionary business and caused by its suboptimal cost structure.

In Q4, Deckers generated an operating margin profit margin of 31.4%, in line with the same quarter last year. This indicates the company’s overall cost structure has been relatively stable.

Earnings Per Share

We track the long-term change in earnings per share (EPS) for the same reason as long-term revenue growth. Compared to revenue, however, EPS highlights whether a company’s growth is profitable.

Deckers’s EPS grew at an unimpressive 27% compounded annual growth rate over the last five years. This performance was better than its flat revenue but doesn’t tell us much about its business quality because its operating margin didn’t improve.

In Q4, Deckers reported EPS of $3.33, up from $3 in the same quarter last year. This print easily cleared analysts’ estimates, and shareholders should be content with the results. Over the next 12 months, Wall Street expects Deckers’s full-year EPS of $7.08 to shrink by 5.7%.

Key Takeaways from Deckers’s Q4 Results

We were impressed by how significantly Deckers blew past analysts’ constant currency revenue expectations this quarter. We were also glad its EPS outperformed Wall Street’s estimates. Looking ahead, the company raised full-year revenue guidance, and full-year EPS guidance also beat. Zooming out, we think this quarter featured a lot of important positives. The stock traded up 13.1% to $112.98 immediately following the results.

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