Utz Brands (UTZ) Earnings: Q3 Fiscal 2026 Results

The quarter ended September 27, 2026 and Utz Brands published the results on November 6, 2026. Revenue and diluted EPS are shown against Q3 fiscal 2025, the same quarter a year earlier, which takes seasonal swings out of the comparison. Utz Brands reports EPS two ways: GAAP, under the accounting rules every US filer follows, and Adjusted Earnings Per Share, which leaves out items the company considers outside its operating results. The release reconciles the two, and when they diverge, the reconciliation says why.

• On July 20, 2026, Utz agreed to be taken private: subsidiaries of Intersnack Group will buy all Class A shares for $14.25 per share in cash, with the Rice and Lissette Family and Intersnack each owning 50% of Utz Brands Holdings afterwards. Utz expects the deal to close in Q4 2026.
• Utz's fiscal Q3 2026 is the 13 weeks ended September 27, 2026, compared with the 13 weeks ended September 28, 2025. Net income and EPS are for the Class A shares; net loss before noncontrolling interest was $32.1 million.

Source: Utz Brands Q3 2026 results, November 6, 2026. Also in the Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 27, 2026. Figures as reported; checked against the release on November 10, 2026.

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

• Utz Brands's Branded Salty Snacks revenue was $338 million in Q3 fiscal 2026, 92% of total revenue.
• Utz Brands's Non-Branded & Non-Salty Snacks revenue was $30.8 million in Q3 fiscal 2026, 8% 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.

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

GAAP net sales and diluted EPS per Class A share, each as first reported in that quarter's release.

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• Q3 fiscal 2026 (this page), reported Nov 6, 2026

Utz Brands had net sales of $369.2 million in Q3 fiscal 2026, down 2.3% from $377.8 million. Utz split the change into a 5.2% reduction from volume/mix, partly offset by 2.9% from higher net price realization. Organic net sales were the same $369.2 million, because no acquisition, divestiture or route conversion affected the quarter. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Branded Salty Snacks brought in $338.4 million, or 92% of net sales, and grew 0.3%, led by the Power Four Brands: Utz, On The Border, Zapp's and Boulder Canyon. Non-Branded & Non-Salty Snacks, which covers partner brands, private label, co-manufacturing and On The Border dips and salsa, fell 23.8% to $30.8 million because Utz accelerated the elimination of low margin non-branded items. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

In Circana retail data for the 13 weeks, Utz's Branded Salty Snacks retail sales rose 0.2% against 1.1% for the salty snack category, and its retail volumes fell 3.3% while the category's rose 0.1%. Power Four Brands retail sales increased 2.1%, and Utz said it gained retail sales in its expansion geographies. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Utz sells to grocery, mass, club, convenience and drug retailers through direct shipments, distributors and about 2,500 direct-store delivery routes, and calls itself the second-largest producer of branded salty snacks in the U.S. by 2025 retail sales. In fiscal 2025 its top 10 customers represented about 40% of invoiced sales, and one customer provided more than 10% of net sales. (Utz Brands Form 10-K, fiscal 2025, Feb 12, 2026)

Net sales are reported after discounts given to independent operators who run the routes. Those IO discounts were $44.5 million in Q3 fiscal 2026, down from $45.7 million a year earlier. (Utz Brands Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 6, 2026)

Utz Brands lost $0.27 per diluted Class A share in Q3 fiscal 2026 under GAAP, against a loss of $0.17 a year earlier, while Adjusted Earnings Per Share was $0.10, down 56.5% from $0.23. Net loss attributable to controlling interest was $24.3 million. Adjusted Net Income of $14.2 million excludes step-up depreciation and amortization from past acquisitions, supply chain and corporate transformation costs, transaction costs and other non-cash items, and is divided by 145.2 million fully diluted shares that assume the Class V shares convert to Class A. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

The take-private deal is the largest single item. Transaction costs related to the Intersnack agreement were $17.7 million in the quarter, and Utz said they were the main reason SG&A rose to $97.4 million, or 26.4% of net sales, from $87.7 million. Supply chain transformation costs were $11.2 million and corporate transformation costs $6.8 million. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Gross profit margin fell 320 basis points to 21.0%, and Adjusted Gross Profit Margin fell 530 basis points to 27.2%, which Utz put down to significant supply chain cost inflation, channel mix and lower volumes. Adjusted EBITDA fell 30.3% to $42.0 million, an 11.4% margin against 16.0%. Under the merger agreement Utz is barred from repurchasing Class A shares, and it bought back none in the first 39 weeks. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026; Utz Brands Form 10-Q, Q3 2026, Nov 6, 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.

Utz Brands gives no outlook in its Q3 fiscal 2026 release. Because of the pending take-private transaction, it said it will not update forward-looking guidance for 2026 and did not hold a conference call for the quarter. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

Holders of Class A shares are due $14.25 per share in cash at closing. Utz said all regulatory conditions have been satisfied, the stockholder vote is scheduled for November 13, 2026, and it expects the deal to close in Q4 2026. CEO Howard Friedman said John Lindeman will take over as CEO in the weeks after the expected closing. (Utz Brands Q3 2026 release, Nov 6, 2026)

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