TJX Cos. raised its full-year guidance on Wednesday after posting another quarter of strong sales, but its outlook still fell just short of Wall Street’s expectations.
The discounter behind Marshalls, HomeGoods and T.J. Maxx is now expecting full-year earnings to be between $4.09 and $4.13, compared with estimates of $4.14, according to LSEG.
For the current quarter, TJX is expecting earnings per share to be between $1.06 and $1.08, compared with estimates of $1.10.
So far this earnings season, retailers that disappoint with guidance haven’t seen much negative impact to their shares, suggesting investors are prepared for uncertainty in the second half of the year ahead of the U.S. presidential election and a potential rate cut from the Federal Reserve. Shares of TJX rose nearly 6% in afternoon trading.
Here’s how the discounter did for the fiscal second quarter compared with what Wall Street was anticipating, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:
- Earnings per share: 96 cents vs.92 cents expected
- Revenue: $13.47 billion vs. $13.31 billion expected
The company’s reported net income for the three-month period that ended Aug. 3 was $1.1 billion, or 96 cents per share, compared with $989 million, or 85 cents per share, a year earlier.
Sales rose to $13.47 billion, up from $12.76 billion a year earlier.
Throughout TJX’s fiscal 2024 year, which ended in February, the company posted strong sales gains and robust guidance, but investors have been keen to see how it will lap those numbers in the quarters ahead and if it can keep growing.
The company has looked abroad as a primary growth avenue and on Wednesday, it announced that it was taking a 35% ownership stake in the Dubai-based retailer Brands for Less for $360 million. The privately held brand is the region’s only major off-price player and operates more than 100 stores, primarily in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, along with an e-commerce business, TJX said in a news release.
“As TJX seeks to continue its global growth, this transaction gives the Company an opportunity to invest in an established, off-price retailer with significant growth potential,” TJX said. “The Company’s ownership in BFL is expected to be slightly accretive to earnings per share beginning in Fiscal 2026.”
Europe has been more challenging for TJX, especially the U.K., according to CEO Ernie Herrman.
“We were a little disappointed in our Europe business,” Herrman said in the earnings conference call. “A decent size of that is our own execution.”
Nonetheless, Herrman said TJX is on the right path forward.
During the quarter, consolidated comparable store sales increased by 4% and were “entirely driven by an increase in customer transactions,” indicating more shoppers are coming to its stores, TJX said. That jump is ahead of the 2.8% uptick that analysts had expected, according to StreetAccount.
The growth was primarily driven by TJX’s Marmaxx division in the U.S., which includes TJ Maxx, Marshalls and Sierra stores. During the…
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