Newell Brands (NWL) Earnings: Q3 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 30, 2026 and Newell Brands published the results on October 30, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. Newell Brands reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and normalized, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• The GAAP loss includes a $101 million non-cash impairment of an indefinite-lived tradename in the Commercial business of Home & Commercial Solutions. Newell Brands' normalized figures exclude it, along with restructuring, acquired-intangible amortization, a pension settlement loss and other items.
• Diluted EPS is a loss of $0.19 a share. Because of the loss, diluted and basic share counts are the same, 425.9 million.

Source: Newell Brands Q3 2026 results, October 30, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

How Newell Brands 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.

• Newell Brands's Home & Commercial Solutions revenue was $1.0 billion in Q3 2026, up 7% from $942 million in Q3 2025, 54% of total revenue.
• Newell Brands's Learning & Development revenue was $692 million in Q3 2026, up 2% from $681 million in Q3 2025, 37% of total revenue.
• Newell Brands's Outdoor & Recreation revenue was $169 million in Q3 2026, down 8% from $183 million in Q3 2025, 9% 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 Q3 2026 release, Newell Brands said:

“Normalized EPS $0.17 to $0.19”

“Normalized EPS $0.74 to $0.76”

“Higher sales expectations and additional cost containment are offsetting additional inflation, enabling the Company to maintain the midpoints of its full-year normalized operating margin and normalized EPS outlooks.”

“Based on these two items the Company has revised its full-year operating cash flow guidance to approximately $150 million.”

Source: Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026.

This is the company's own guidance as of Oct 30, 2026, quoted as given. Walnut does not make forecasts of its own. Analyst estimates for the coming quarters are on the NWL forecast page.

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

GAAP net sales and diluted earnings (loss) per share, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

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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 30, 2026

Newell Brands reported Q3 2026 net sales of $1,873 million, up 3.7% from $1,806 million, its second consecutive quarter of year-over-year sales growth. Core sales, which exclude foreign exchange, acquisitions, divestitures and certain exits, grew 3.3%. Newell said four of its six businesses and seven of its top 10 brands grew. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026)

Home & Commercial Solutions is the largest segment, with net sales of $1,012 million against $942 million and core sales growth of 6.0%. Kitchen sales were $501 million, Commercial $352 million and Home Fragrance $159 million, and all three grew core sales. Learning & Development sales were $692 million, with core growth of 2.3%: Writing grew to $423 million while Baby was roughly flat at $269 million. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026; Newell Brands Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

Outdoor & Recreation, which sells outdoor products and beverageware under brands including Coleman, Contigo and Marmot, was the weak spot. Its net sales fell to $169 million from $183 million on a 6.4% core sales decline, and its normalized operating loss widened to $10 million from $1 million. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026; Newell Brands Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 13, 2026)

North America accounted for $1,243 million of Q3 2026 net sales and international markets for $630 million. Newell sells mostly through large retailers: in 2025 Amazon, its largest customer, accounted for approximately 17% of net sales and Walmart approximately 13%. (Newell Brands Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026; Newell Brands Form 10-K, 2025, Feb 13, 2026)

Newell Brands posted a GAAP diluted loss of $0.19 a share in Q3 2026, against EPS of $0.05 a year earlier, while normalized diluted EPS rose to $0.20 from $0.17. The gap is mainly a $101 million non-cash impairment charge on an indefinite-lived tradename in the Commercial business, which Newell tied to lower profitability expectations from higher operating costs and to rising interest rates. Normalized results also exclude $23 million of acquired-intangible amortization, a $19 million pension settlement loss and $16 million of debt extinguishment costs. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026; Newell Brands Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Oct 30, 2026)

Operating income fell to $27 million from $119 million, but normalized operating income rose to $184 million, or 9.8% of sales, from $162 million, on higher sales and a normalized gross margin of 35.2% against 34.5%. Net interest expense was $86 million. During the quarter Newell issued $600 million of 6.250% senior notes due 2031 and redeemed its 6.375% notes due 2027. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026)

Newell's weighted-average diluted share count was 425.9 million, against 423.5 million a year earlier, and it paid a dividend of $0.07 a share. Debt outstanding was $4.8 billion at quarter end, with $249 million of cash. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 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.

Newell Brands gives a quarterly and full-year outlook in its release. For Q4 2026 it expects net sales and core sales growth of 1% to 3%, a normalized operating margin of 8.4% to 9.0% and normalized EPS of $0.17 to $0.19. For full-year 2026 it raised net sales growth to 2% to 3%, from 1% to 2%, and core sales growth to 1% to 2%, and narrowed normalized EPS to $0.74 to $0.76 from $0.73 to $0.77. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026)

Newell cut its operating cash flow outlook to approximately $150 million. It said terminating its non-qualified defined benefit plans lowers expected operating cash flow by approximately $85 million, even though the transaction is expected to bring a net cash benefit of approximately $60 million, and that it expects less cash from receivables factoring after its bond refinancing. (Newell Brands Q3 2026 release, Oct 30, 2026)

A consensus figure is the average of the models published by the analysts who cover Newell Brands, 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 Newell Brands's own release and filings put weight on for Q3 2026, with the latest reported value for each.

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• 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.

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