Brunswick Corporation (BC) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results and Next Report Date

The quarter ended October 3, 2026 and Brunswick published the results on October 29, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. Brunswick reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and as adjusted, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• Diluted EPS here is from continuing operations. Q3 2025 included $333.8 million of restructuring, exit and impairment charges, $324.3 million of it at Navico Group, which produced that quarter's GAAP loss.
• Brunswick's Q3 2026 ended October 3, 2026 and Q3 2025 ended September 27, 2025. Segment net sales include sales between segments, removed in the Segment Eliminations row.

Source: Brunswick Q3 2026 results, October 29, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended October 3, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Brunswick splits revenue in its own release, under its own labels, for Q3 2026 against Q3 2025. Indented lines are parts of the line above them.

• Brunswick's Propulsion revenue was $571 million in Q3 2026, up 7% from $535 million in Q3 2025, 39% of total revenue.
• Brunswick's Engine Parts & Accessories revenue was $381 million in Q3 2026, up 5% from $364 million in Q3 2025, 26% of total revenue.
• Brunswick's Navico Group revenue was $198 million in Q3 2026, up 6% from $187 million in Q3 2025, 14% of total revenue.
• Brunswick's Boat revenue was $394 million in Q3 2026, up 9% from $360 million in Q3 2025, 27% of total revenue.

Segment lines are the figures writers cite most often, because they show where the growth in a quarter came from. Companies redraw their segments from time to time and restate the prior year to match, so a year-ago figure here can differ from the one printed a year ago. When that has happened, the note above says so.

From the earnings release

In its Q2 2026 release (July 30, 2026), Brunswick guided adjusted diluted EPS of $4.35 to $4.75 and the same net sales range.

In its Q3 2026 release, Brunswick said:

“Net sales: $5.7 billion to $5.8 billion”

“Adjusted operating margin: approximately 8.0 percent”

“Adjusted diluted EPS: approximately $4.65”

“Free cash flow: $400 million or more”

Source: Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 29, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the BC forecast page.

Revenue and diluted EPS for the last 5 quarters. Each date links to that quarter's release.

Net sales and diluted EPS from continuing operations, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

Brunswick's next report is expected around January 28, 2027, a date estimated from its reporting history that the company has not yet confirmed. This page will show Q3 2026 until those results are out and have been checked against the release.

Each quarter keeps its own page with the figures as reported, so a link to one stays pointed at the same numbers after the next report.

• Q3 2026 (this page), reported Oct 29, 2026

Brunswick reports four segments, and in Q3 2026 net sales rose 6.9% to $1,453.9 million with all four growing for a fifth straight quarter. Propulsion, mostly Mercury Marine outboard engines, was the largest at $570.5 million, up 6.6%. Boat sales were $394.4 million (up 9.5%), Engine Parts & Accessories $380.9 million (up 4.7%) and Navico Group, the marine electronics business behind Lowrance, Simrad and B&G, $197.7 million (up 5.8%). (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Segment figures include sales between Brunswick's own businesses, such as Mercury engines fitted to Brunswick boats, and $89.6 million of segment eliminations bring the total back to consolidated net sales. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026; Brunswick Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 5, 2026)

Brunswick put the growth down to steady OEM demand across the portfolio, pricing actions taken in earlier periods, market share gains and healthy boating participation that supported parts, accessories and aftermarket sales. Propulsion grew on OEM demand in a low pipeline environment and on high-horsepower outboard applications, and Boat on premium and core products. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Most sales are in the US: $1,070.9 million of Q3 2026 net sales, against $1,001.3 million a year earlier, with $183.0 million in Europe, $103.3 million in Asia Pacific and $99.8 million in Canada. (Brunswick Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 5, 2026)

Engine Parts & Accessories sells oils, lubricants, electrical products and boat parts, mostly to aftermarket retailers, dealers, distributors and OEMs, and Brunswick describes it as a recurring-revenue business. It had the highest margin of the four segments, a 24.6% operating margin in the quarter. Brunswick also estimates Freedom Boat Club accounts for close to seventy percent of the North American boat club market. (Brunswick Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 13, 2026; Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Brunswick's GAAP diluted EPS from continuing operations was $1.01 in Q3 2026, against a loss of $3.57 a year earlier, and as adjusted EPS was $1.58, up 62.9% from $0.97. The year-ago loss came from $333.8 million of restructuring, exit and impairment charges, mostly at Navico Group. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Brunswick's adjusted figures exclude restructuring, exit and impairment charges ($21.1 million this quarter, $17.8 million of it in Propulsion), purchase accounting amortization ($14.8 million), a $7.4 million loss on the sale of a business or assets in Boat, and acquisition and IT costs. It taxes adjusted earnings at 18.1%, against a GAAP effective tax rate of 20.9%. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Adjusted operating margin rose 230 basis points to 10.1%, which Brunswick attributed to higher sales, better absorption on higher production, favorable mix, cost control and lapping last year's tariff impacts. Interest expense fell to $22.9 million from $27.0 million, and diluted shares were 65.1 million against 65.7 million, after $75 million of buybacks so far in 2026. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Diluted EPS divides net income by the weighted average number of shares outstanding in the quarter, plus the shares that options and other equity awards could add. Buybacks shrink that count and lift EPS for the same profit; share issuance and stock awards enlarge it.

Brunswick gives full-year guidance in its release. With Q3 2026 results it raised 2026 adjusted diluted EPS guidance to approximately $4.65 and kept net sales at $5.7 billion to $5.8 billion, adjusted operating margin at approximately 8.0 percent and free cash flow at $400 million or more. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

Brunswick also targets debt retirement of $160 million or more and share repurchases of $80 million or more for 2026, and it does not give GAAP guidance because it cannot predict items such as restructuring and acquisition costs. (Brunswick Q3 2026 release, Oct 29, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Brunswick, collected by a data provider and revised up to the day of the report. A quarter that lands above it says how expectations were set as much as how the business did, and the share price on the day also reflects the guidance and the lines no consensus covers.

The consensus figures on this page are Yahoo Finance's, as pulled on the date shown. Each comes with the number of analysts behind it; the smaller that number, the more one revised estimate can move the average.

The figures below are the ones Brunswick's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

What the quarter means for a holding is a separate question from what it reported. The case for and against owning BC is on is BC a buy or a sell?, what analysts expect next is on the BC forecast, and what the company does is on the Brunswick Corporation (BC) stock page.

Every number on this page can be traced to a document Brunswick published. Checking one takes a couple of minutes, and it is worth doing before you quote a figure anywhere.

• The results release is the document linked in the source line above. Companies publish it on their investor relations site at the moment results go out, and it carries the headline tables: revenue, operating income, net income and EPS for the quarter and the year-ago quarter.
• The same release is filed with the SEC as Exhibit 99.1 to a Form 8-K under Item 2.02, usually on the day of the report. The SEC copy does not change after the fact, which makes it the safer thing to link when you cite a number.
• The quarterly report (Form 10-Q) follows within a few weeks and carries the full financial statements, the segment note and management's discussion of what changed. The fourth quarter is covered by the annual report (Form 10-K) instead.
• Restated comparisons are flagged in the notes on this page. When a company redraws its segments or changes how it adjusts EPS, it restates the year-ago column, so the year-ago figure in a new release can differ from the one printed a year ago. This page always uses the comparison in the newer release, because that is the like-for-like one.

A walk-through of every line in a release, with what each one tells you, is in how to read an earnings report.