Ferguson Stock Closes Up 11.2% at $259.93 on Day of Third Quarter Results

1What the company reported

Ferguson Enterprises Inc. (FERG) stock closed up 11.2% on November 9, 2026, on the day it released results for the quarter ended September 30. The company put out its release before the open, with the SEC filing accepted at 6:50 a.m. ET. Each figure below sits beside the year earlier figure the release prints.

• Sales: $9,026 million, against $8,245 million a year earlier. Organic growth, which means growth from existing operations with acquisitions and business sales left out, was 7.0%.
• Operating profit: $885 million, against $844 million a year earlier.
• Adjusted operating profit: $962 million, against $883 million. Adjusted profit is profit with certain costs left out, as the company lists them in its release.
• Earnings per share: $3.08 diluted, against $3.24 a year earlier. Adjusted, the figure was $3.43, against $3.18.
• One time items: The release lists $25 million of acquisition and integration costs tied to the FloWorks purchase, with none a year earlier. It also lists $2 million of corporate restructuring costs, the same as a year earlier.
• Guidance: Guidance is the company's own outlook for the year. The updated 2026 guidance puts net sales growth at about 7%, against mid single digit growth before. Adjusted operating margin is now 9.6% to 9.8%, against 9.5% to 9.8%, and interest expense is about $235 million, against about $200 million. Capital spending is about $425 million, against $375 million to $425 million, and the adjusted tax rate stays at about 26%.
• Dividend: The company declared a quarterly dividend, a cash payment to shareholders, of $0.89.

2How the stock moved

Ferguson closed at $259.93 on November 9, against a prior close of $233.70. The stock opened at $251.68 and traded between a low of $246.40 and a high of $265.24.

Volume, the number of shares that changed hands, was 3.8M. That is about 2.6 times the 30 session average of 1.4M. A single day's move reflects that day's trading and can reverse or extend in later sessions.

3How this move compares

The table shows how Ferguson stock moved on its last four results days and on this one.

The 11.2% gain is larger than any of the four earlier moves. The largest of those was a fall of 8.0% on December 9, 2025.

4The Market Eyes rating before the report

The Market Eyes rating dated November 5, 2026, before the report, read Hold with a score of 65. Hold is the name of the tier and describes a read of conditions at that date, not a forecast. Its strongest factor was Catalyst, which scored 100, and its weakest was Valuation, which scored 45.

5Words in this note

• Guidance: the company's own outlook for the year.
• Adjusted profit: profit with certain costs left out, as the company lists them in its release.
• One time item: a cost or gain the company says does not come up in its normal business.
• Organic growth: growth from existing operations, with acquisitions and business sales left out.
• Volume: the number of shares that changed hands in a day.