Michaels Raises Guidance
August 27 2015 - 8:10AM
Dow Jones News
Michaels Cos. on Thursday raised its earnings guidance for the
year as its sales increased 3.8% in the second quarter.
The arts-and-crafts retailer now expects earnings of $1.66 to
$1.72 a share, up one cent from its previous view.
For the current quarter, the company expects earnings of 35
cents to 37 cents a share, compared with analyst estimates of 37
cents.
While Michaels dominates the arts-and-crafts retail segment, it
faces growing competition from a number of smaller and online-only
outlets.
Overall for the quarter ended Aug. 1, Michaels posted a profit
of $35.7 million, or 17 cents a share, compared with a year-earlier
loss of $48.6 million, or 26 cents a share.
Sales grew to $984 million from $948 million. Comparable-store
sales increased by 1.6%, or 2.9% on a constant currency basis.
Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had forecast 16 cents a share
in earnings on revenue of $985 million.
Michaels, which had been taken private in 2006 by a Blackstone
Group LP-led consortium of private-equity firms, started trading on
Nasdaq a year ago with an offer price of $17 a share. Shares,
inactive premarket, have been down about 3% this year through
Wednesday's close to $23.92.
Write to Angela Chen at angela.chen@wsj.com
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