Even as it works to mitigate supply chain and inflation issues, Dollar General Corp. posted a first quarter earnings and sales beat on Wall Street estimates. Net income was $552.7 million, or $2.41 per diluted share, the company reported, versus $667.7 million, or...
After its board and management survived a proxy fight with an activist investor, Kohl’s Corp. announced that the first quarter was another struggle for the company. Net income was $14 million, or 11 cents per diluted share, versus $14, or nine cents per diluted share,...
In the second quarter, Sally Beauty came up short of Wall Street sales and earnings estimates as supply chain, inflation and stimulus factors weighed. Second-quarter net earnings were $46.8 million, or 42 cents per diluted share, versus $38.3 million, or 34 cents per...
Consumer spending on general merchandise finished 2021 up 15% versus the year earlier, with a 6% increase in unit sales, according to The NPD Group, and it wasn’t all holiday action. Although holiday shopping brought positive retail results, the early part of 2021...
Although Covid-19 continues to make its effects felt in the marketplace, results from the Deloitte 36th annual Holiday Retail Survey indicate that consumers will spend an average of $1,463 per household in the festive season this year, up 5% from 2020. Deloitte, as...
