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Record fund launches. Record assets. If active money management is in decline, someone forgot to tell the ETF industry.\nAmped up by a meme-crazed market and emboldened ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-wood-just-start-stock-120000320.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-wood-just-start-stock-120000320.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1141267906","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- Record inflows. Record fund launches. Record assets. If active money management is in decline, someone forgot to tell the ETF industry.\nAmped up by a meme-crazed market and emboldened by the success of Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management, stock pickers are storming the $6.6 trillion U.S. exchange-traded fund universe like never before -- adding a new twist in the 50-year invasion from passive investing.\nPassive funds still dominate the industry, but actively managed products have cut into that lead, scooping up three-times their share of the unprecedented $500 billion plowed into ETFs in 2021, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. New active funds are arriving at double the rate of passive rivals, and the cohort has boosted its market share by a third in a year.\n“Historically, people have thought about ETFs as being indexed-based,” said Todd Rosenbluth, head of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA Research. “Then Ark became a household name, and then investors came to realize that not only were those products worth looking at, but so were others.”\nNone of this is supposed to happen in an industry built on the magic of indexing. Yet a market roller coaster brought on by the pandemic is helping discretionary asset managers turn ETFs to their own advantage.\nEquity conditions in general have become conducive to an active approach, leadership shifting in a stop-start economy, an unpredictable macro backdrop, and increased market breadth.\nRead more: Active Funds Crushed Equity Benchmarks in May Like Never Before\nAt the same time, investors are showing an unusual willingness to make concentrated bets, from riding the meme-stock madness to following the kind of thematic vision laid out by Wood.\nThey’ve poured $62 billion into active ETFs year-to-date. That’s 12% of total flows going to a slice of the market with only 4% of assets. In the rush to tap the burgeoning demand, issuers have now launched 156 actively managed products in 2021, compared with 77 passive funds.\n“At the end of day, the ETF is just a wrapper, it’s just a way to package and distribute an investment strategy,” said Ben Johnson, director of global ETF research at Morningstar. “More investors are getting hip to the fact that the notion of an actively-managed ETF is not an oxymoron.”\nFifty-Year Battle\nThe active surge is the latest development in a money-management battle that’s been raging since July 1971, when a team at Wells Fargo & Co. created the original index fund.\nToday, the passive juggernaut is slashing industry costs, opening up investing to the masses and forcing discretionary traders to adapt or die. Active launches may be booming, but the bulk of cash flooding U.S. stocks is still destined for big, cheap funds that do nothing but track the market.\nRead more: Wall Street Surrenders to the $500 Billion ETF Rush\n“Active ETFs are doing better than they have in past, but passive is still king,” said James Seyffart, an ETF analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. “A lot of that active flow in the big months from late 2020 to early 2021 is to Cathie’s funds.”\nWood has become the poster child for active management in ETFs. The flagship fund at Ark was one of the best-performing in America last year with a 149% return.\nInspired by this and her enticing thematic approach -- which focuses on trends like robotics or space travel rather than market segments -- investors have sunk $14.5 billion into Ark funds in 2021.\nPassive Attack\nThe mini boom for active ETFs comes not a moment too soon for the stock-picking industry.\nPassive funds -- mutual and exchange-traded -- now manage $11 trillion and are on course to hold 50% of all registered U.S. fund assets within five years, according to BI calculations.\nCritics say the rapidly swelling index industry is blowing bubbles in stock markets, weakening corporate governance and more. And in some ways, it can also hit returns.\nTake Tesla Inc.’s entry into the S&P 500 in December. While discretionary managers could buy Elon Musk’s firm in advance, index funds ended up adding it at an inflated valuation -- and were forced to offload billions of dollars in other stocks to make space in portfolios.\n“Index funds systematically buy high and sell low,” wrote Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates and his colleagues in a June paper. They argued investors would have been better off holding the company pushed out of the index to make way for Tesla.\nThe main advantage stock pickers enjoy over their passive peers is more flexibility in deploying their cash. That’s something they’ve been able to bring to ETFs for years -- Wood’s first fund launched in 2014 -- but it was a rule change in 2019 that paved the way for the current jump in activity.\nIt made launching ETFs easier, and enabled new structures that could hide the strategy underpinning a fund. That helped lure multiple major Wall Street players to the industry after years of holding out, including the likes of Wells Fargo and T. Rowe Price.\nTalk of discretionary management’s decline is still rampant, but the woes aren’t as bad as they may seem. Even as U.S. active funds -- mutual and ETF -- saw $209 billion exit last year, they closed 2020 with about $13.3 trillion under management. 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There’s Reason to Worry About What Comes Next.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1121501806","media":"Barron's","summary":"Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.\nThis past week, the world’s fiv","content":"<p>Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.</p>\n<p>This past week, the world’s five largest tech companies—<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a>(ticker: AAPL),<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a>(MSFT),<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">Amazon.com</a>(AMZN),<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">Alphabet</a>(GOOGL), andFacebook(FB)—all reported quarterly results. Their collective performance was astonishing. As a group, their revenue increased 36%, to $332 billion. These companies spent the pandemic making gobs of money.</p>\n<p>Butinvestors were unimpressed. While <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">Alphabet</a> inched 1.3% higher for the week, the others were all down. Amazongot the worst reception; its stock fell 7.6% on Friday. With all five hovering near all-time highs, investors are taking profits, worried that growth rates are going to slow from here. Beneath the surface, the concerns are well founded. Here are the key takeaways from Big Tech’s huge earnings:</p>\n<p><b>The pandemic boom is over.</b>That’s not to say the pandemic itself is over—the Delta variant is wreaking havoc—but Americans have already made changes in their behavior, and those adjustments are having a major impact on the tech giants.</p>\n<p>It starts with e-commerce. Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said on the company’s earnings call that starting in mid-May, growth in e-commerce sales dropped into the midteens from the 30%-to-40% range. People are getting vaccines and leaving the house to buy things that just a few months ago they would have bought online. They’re also shifting some disposable income from online shopping to travel, restaurants, and even events. Olsavsky sees continued tough comparisons for Amazon—and midteens growth rates—for the next few quarters.</p>\n<p>Applebeat expectations in all of its segments, but growth is slowing there, too. Mac sales were up 16% in the June quarter, down from 70% growth three months earlier. iPad sales were up 12%, versus 79% in the March period. This is all still better than before the pandemic, but it suggests that the furious shopping spree for home offices and virtual schooling is coming to an end.Logitech(LOGI), which makes PC peripherals like mice and webcams, had 66% revenue growth in the June quarter, but it sees flat revenue for its fiscal year ending in March 2022.</p>\n<p><b>Component shortages continue.</b>The market’s biggest issue with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a>’s quarter was its warning that the chip supply shortage has worsened since the end of June—and that the issue will affect the availability of iPads and, even worse, iPhones. In September, Apple is expected torelease the iPhone 13—and there’s a risk that Apple might not be able to meet demand.<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QCOM\">Qualcomm</a>(QCOM) this past week warned that the chip shortage could drag into 2022. This could take a while to fix.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call that shipping costs are higher, too. I saw evidence of that from my seat at a San Francisco Giants game this past week. Looking past McCovey Cove toward San Francisco <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BYBK\">Bay</a>, there were at least a dozen container ships lined up to get into the Port of Oakland, which saw an 11% increase in cargo volume in the first half. The port is backed up in part due to a shortage of dockworkers. Freight rates are at record levels, and the holiday merchandising season is fast approaching, adding to demand for freight capacity.</p>\n<p><b>Online advertising is blazing hot.</b>On a brighter note for investors, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">Alphabet</a>’sad business grew 68% in the latest quarter, including an 84% jump in advertising at YouTube. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a>’sad business grew 56%, driven by a 47% year-over-year increase in ad pricing. Amazon’s “other” revenue category, mostly ads, was up 87%, to $7.9 billion, nearly $1 billion better than Wall Street estimates. Apple doesn’t break out advertising, but ad strength contributed to the 33% growth in the company’s services business. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a> saw a53% jump in search ads(remember Bing?) and a 97% jump in advertising at <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LNKD\">LinkedIn</a>. It all stems from the reopening of the economy. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">Alphabet</a> told analysts that the biggest driver of ad growth was retail, with strong contributions from travel, financial services, and media and entertainment. People are shopping, eating out, and going on vacation, and that’s driving ads.</p>\n<p><b>Cloud adoption is accelerating.</b>The digital transformation trend that everyone in enterprise computing talks about is the real deal. For Amazon, the slowdown in e-commerce growth overshadowed a fantastic quarter for its Amazon Web Services cloud unit, which grew 37%—accelerating from 32% in the March quarter— to $14.8 billion. That was $500 million better than estimates. Microsoft Azure revenue was up 51%, beating the Wall Street consensus by nine percentage points. Alphabet posted 54% growth in its Google Cloud business, accelerating from 46% growth in the March quarter. Google Cloud is rapidly approaching a $20 billion annual revenue run rate. Give it a cloud-like sales multiple of 20 times and the business is worth $400 billion, constituting more than 20% of Alphabet’s current market value.</p>\n<p><b>The wild card.</b>Regulators and legislators scrutinizing Big Tech are surely looking at the latest results and finding a new sense of purpose. The big are getting bigger. And the regulatory risks are getting riskier.</p>","source":"lsy1610680873436","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Big Tech Earnings Sparkled. 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There’s Reason to Worry About What Comes Next.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-31 07:18 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/big-tech-earnings-stocks-51627680068?mod=mw_latestnews><strong>Barron's</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.\nThis past week, the world’s five largest tech companies—Apple(ticker: AAPL),Microsoft(MSFT),Amazon.com(AMZN),Alphabet(GOOGL), ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/big-tech-earnings-stocks-51627680068?mod=mw_latestnews\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果","AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/big-tech-earnings-stocks-51627680068?mod=mw_latestnews","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1121501806","content_text":"Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.\nThis past week, the world’s five largest tech companies—Apple(ticker: AAPL),Microsoft(MSFT),Amazon.com(AMZN),Alphabet(GOOGL), andFacebook(FB)—all reported quarterly results. Their collective performance was astonishing. As a group, their revenue increased 36%, to $332 billion. These companies spent the pandemic making gobs of money.\nButinvestors were unimpressed. While Alphabet inched 1.3% higher for the week, the others were all down. Amazongot the worst reception; its stock fell 7.6% on Friday. With all five hovering near all-time highs, investors are taking profits, worried that growth rates are going to slow from here. Beneath the surface, the concerns are well founded. Here are the key takeaways from Big Tech’s huge earnings:\nThe pandemic boom is over.That’s not to say the pandemic itself is over—the Delta variant is wreaking havoc—but Americans have already made changes in their behavior, and those adjustments are having a major impact on the tech giants.\nIt starts with e-commerce. Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said on the company’s earnings call that starting in mid-May, growth in e-commerce sales dropped into the midteens from the 30%-to-40% range. People are getting vaccines and leaving the house to buy things that just a few months ago they would have bought online. They’re also shifting some disposable income from online shopping to travel, restaurants, and even events. Olsavsky sees continued tough comparisons for Amazon—and midteens growth rates—for the next few quarters.\nApplebeat expectations in all of its segments, but growth is slowing there, too. Mac sales were up 16% in the June quarter, down from 70% growth three months earlier. iPad sales were up 12%, versus 79% in the March period. This is all still better than before the pandemic, but it suggests that the furious shopping spree for home offices and virtual schooling is coming to an end.Logitech(LOGI), which makes PC peripherals like mice and webcams, had 66% revenue growth in the June quarter, but it sees flat revenue for its fiscal year ending in March 2022.\nComponent shortages continue.The market’s biggest issue with Apple’s quarter was its warning that the chip supply shortage has worsened since the end of June—and that the issue will affect the availability of iPads and, even worse, iPhones. In September, Apple is expected torelease the iPhone 13—and there’s a risk that Apple might not be able to meet demand.Qualcomm(QCOM) this past week warned that the chip shortage could drag into 2022. This could take a while to fix.\nMeanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call that shipping costs are higher, too. I saw evidence of that from my seat at a San Francisco Giants game this past week. Looking past McCovey Cove toward San Francisco Bay, there were at least a dozen container ships lined up to get into the Port of Oakland, which saw an 11% increase in cargo volume in the first half. The port is backed up in part due to a shortage of dockworkers. Freight rates are at record levels, and the holiday merchandising season is fast approaching, adding to demand for freight capacity.\nOnline advertising is blazing hot.On a brighter note for investors, Alphabet’sad business grew 68% in the latest quarter, including an 84% jump in advertising at YouTube. Facebook’sad business grew 56%, driven by a 47% year-over-year increase in ad pricing. Amazon’s “other” revenue category, mostly ads, was up 87%, to $7.9 billion, nearly $1 billion better than Wall Street estimates. Apple doesn’t break out advertising, but ad strength contributed to the 33% growth in the company’s services business. Microsoft saw a53% jump in search ads(remember Bing?) and a 97% jump in advertising at LinkedIn. It all stems from the reopening of the economy. Alphabet told analysts that the biggest driver of ad growth was retail, with strong contributions from travel, financial services, and media and entertainment. People are shopping, eating out, and going on vacation, and that’s driving ads.\nCloud adoption is accelerating.The digital transformation trend that everyone in enterprise computing talks about is the real deal. For Amazon, the slowdown in e-commerce growth overshadowed a fantastic quarter for its Amazon Web Services cloud unit, which grew 37%—accelerating from 32% in the March quarter— to $14.8 billion. That was $500 million better than estimates. Microsoft Azure revenue was up 51%, beating the Wall Street consensus by nine percentage points. Alphabet posted 54% growth in its Google Cloud business, accelerating from 46% growth in the March quarter. Google Cloud is rapidly approaching a $20 billion annual revenue run rate. Give it a cloud-like sales multiple of 20 times and the business is worth $400 billion, constituting more than 20% of Alphabet’s current market value.\nThe wild card.Regulators and legislators scrutinizing Big Tech are surely looking at the latest results and finding a new sense of purpose. The big are getting bigger. And the regulatory risks are getting riskier.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":182,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":151446320,"gmtCreate":1625104306860,"gmtModify":1633944759285,"author":{"id":"3583833149933231","authorId":"3583833149933231","authorIdStr":"3583833149933231","name":"Jinchua21","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3583833149933231"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"👍","listText":"👍","text":"👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/151446320","repostId":"1167249015","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1167249015","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1625053653,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1167249015?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-30 19:47","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Reports Strong First Quarter Results With Sales And Gross Margin Ahead Of Expectations; Transformation Ahead Of Plan","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1167249015","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Net Sales of $1,954M\nCore Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%\nGAAP Gross Margin of 3","content":"<p><b>Net Sales of $1,954M</b></p>\n<p><b>Core Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%</b></p>\n<p><b>GAAP Gross Margin of 32.4%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 34.9%</b></p>\n<p><b>Adjusted EBITDA of $86 Million</b></p>\n<p><b>Raises Full Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</b></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp;Beyond Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 ended&nbsp;May&nbsp;29, 2021.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bbde26abbfa8e2d0a0eb617f3b285efe\" tg-width=\"937\" tg-height=\"481\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp; Beyond&nbsp;shares&nbsp;surged&nbsp;7%&nbsp;in premarket trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ba5cc7a253c1a20f9a1b0d3f2e6fdbfa\" tg-width=\"924\" tg-height=\"663\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><u>Q1 Highlights</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Core1Sales growth of +73%; Comparable3Sales growth of +86% versus Q1 2020</li>\n <li>Comparable Sales growth for Total Enterprise +3% compared to Q1 2019</li>\n <li>Gross Margin of 32.4% and Adjusted2Gross Margin of 34.9%, primarily driven by Owned Brand launches and channel mix shift due to normalized digital penetration versus the COVID-19 period last year</li>\n <li>Q1 Adjusted2EBITDA of$86 millioninclusive of incremental marketing investments during the quarter</li>\n <li>Establishes guidance outlook for 2021 second quarter</li>\n <li>Raises full fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook on Sales and Adjusted2EBITDA; Re-establishes Adjusted EPS guidance</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Fiscal 2021 First Quarter Results (March-April-May)</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Net sales were$1.95 billion, reflecting Core1banner sales growth of 73% compared to the prior year period. Net sales growth versus last year was primarily driven by an increase inBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Net sales included planned reductions of 24% from non-core banner divestitures.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Comparable3sales increased 86% compared to the prior year period, which excludes the impact of the Company's fleet optimization activity. Compared to 2019 fiscal first quarter, total enterprise comparable sales increased 3%, driven by digital sales growth of 84%.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Comparable3sales included an estimated 13% impact from fleet optimization activity when compared to the fiscal 2020 first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales increased 96% compared to the prior year period as the Company had a significant number of stores closed during the 2020 fiscal first quarter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales were driven by growth in its key destination categories, which includes Bedding, Bath,Kitchen Food Prep,Indoor Decor and Home Organization. In total, these categories delivered strong sales growth of more than 100% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter and growth of 7% on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. These categories represented approximately two-thirds of totalBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales in the first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>The buybuy BABY banner continued to deliver positive sales growth with net sales increasing more than 20% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter, and an increase of low-single digits on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. Comparable sales were driven by more than 50% growth in digital.</li>\n <li>Gross margin was 32.4% for the quarter. Excluding special items from both periods, adjusted2gross margin increased 820 basis points to 34.9%, primarily driven by a favorable product mix from Owned Brand launches as well as a more normalized mix of digital sales coupled with a strong recovery in store sales growth.</li>\n <li>SG&amp;A expense, on both a GAAP and adjusted basis, decreased significantly compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions including divestitures of non-core assets and lower rent and occupancy expenses on more efficient stores. This was partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Adjusted2EBITDA for the period improved to$86 millioncompared to last year, primarily due to higher sales and adjusted2gross margin expansion, which were partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Net loss per diluted share of$0.48includes approximately$56 millionfrom special items. Excluding special items, adjusted2net earnings per diluted share was$0.05. Special items reflect charges such as non-cash impairments related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, and charges recorded in connection with the Company's restructuring and transformation initiatives. Restructuring and transformation initiatives includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization, and the income tax impact of these items.</li>\n <li>As expected, operating cash flow usage of$28 millionwas in-line with historical first quarter seasonality and working capital needs. Accordingly, free cash flow5was an investment of$102 millionas a result of$74 millionof planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and IT systems.</li>\n <li>Inventory reduced by approximately$110 millioncompared to the end of fiscal 2020, was primarily related to seasonal selling and product transitions in preparation for the introduction of the Company's Owned Brands, as well as store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization activity.</li>\n <li>$130 millionin capital return to shareholders through share repurchases.</li>\n <li>Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments balance were approximately$1.2 billion.</li>\n <li>Total Liquidity4was approximately$1.9 billion, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Guidance Outlook</u></b></p>\n<p>As a reminder,Net Salesthroughout fiscal 2021 include the Company's Core1businesses and reflects planned reductions related to the Company's store fleet optimization activity.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal 2021 Second Quarter Outlook</u></p>\n<p>The Company expects fiscal 2021 second quarterNet Salesof between$2.04 billionto$2.08 billion, which only reflects sales from the Company's Core1businesses.&nbsp;Net Salesalso includes planned sales reductions from the Company's store fleet optimization program of approximately 9% to 10%. On a Comparable Sales basis, the Company expects to achieve growth in the low-single digit range compared to the prior year period.</p>\n<p>The Company expects to achieve Adjusted2Gross Margin in the range of 35% to 36%.&nbsp; This represents a sequential improvement versus the 2021 fiscal first quarter primarily driven by continued assortment curation and a higher penetration of the Company's Owned Brands.&nbsp; Additionally, this guidance reflects the on-going, year-over-year impact of higher, industry-wide freight costs.</p>\n<p>The Company expects Adjusted2EBITDA between&nbsp;$150 millionto$160 millionand Adjusted2EPS in the range of$0.48to$0.55for the fiscal 2021 second quarter.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</u></p>\n<p>Based on strong performance in the fiscal first quarter and current expectations for the fiscal second quarter, the Company is raising its fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook.</p>\n<p>The Company now expects higher fiscal year 2021 Net Sales of$8.2 billionto$8.4 billionfrom$8.0 billionto$8.2 billion. The Company is raising comparable sales expectations for the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2021 to the Low-Single Digit growth range versus its previously communicated guidance outlook for Flat comparable sales growth.&nbsp; This compares to the Company's robust sales performance during the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2020.</p>\n<p>The Company is also increasing its Adjusted2EBITDA guidance to a range of$520 millionto$540 millionfrom$500 millionto$525 millionand re-introduces a full fiscal year 2021 Adjusted2EPS range of$1.40to$1.55.</p>\n<p>The Company is reaffirming its previously issued guidance for Adjusted2Gross Margin of approximately 35% and Adjusted2SG&amp;A of approximately 31%.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. 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Reports Strong First Quarter Results With Sales And Gross Margin Ahead Of Expectations; Transformation Ahead Of Plan\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-30 19:47</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p><b>Net Sales of $1,954M</b></p>\n<p><b>Core Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%</b></p>\n<p><b>GAAP Gross Margin of 32.4%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 34.9%</b></p>\n<p><b>Adjusted EBITDA of $86 Million</b></p>\n<p><b>Raises Full Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</b></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp;Beyond Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 ended&nbsp;May&nbsp;29, 2021.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bbde26abbfa8e2d0a0eb617f3b285efe\" tg-width=\"937\" tg-height=\"481\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp; Beyond&nbsp;shares&nbsp;surged&nbsp;7%&nbsp;in premarket trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ba5cc7a253c1a20f9a1b0d3f2e6fdbfa\" tg-width=\"924\" tg-height=\"663\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><u>Q1 Highlights</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Core1Sales growth of +73%; Comparable3Sales growth of +86% versus Q1 2020</li>\n <li>Comparable Sales growth for Total Enterprise +3% compared to Q1 2019</li>\n <li>Gross Margin of 32.4% and Adjusted2Gross Margin of 34.9%, primarily driven by Owned Brand launches and channel mix shift due to normalized digital penetration versus the COVID-19 period last year</li>\n <li>Q1 Adjusted2EBITDA of$86 millioninclusive of incremental marketing investments during the quarter</li>\n <li>Establishes guidance outlook for 2021 second quarter</li>\n <li>Raises full fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook on Sales and Adjusted2EBITDA; Re-establishes Adjusted EPS guidance</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Fiscal 2021 First Quarter Results (March-April-May)</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Net sales were$1.95 billion, reflecting Core1banner sales growth of 73% compared to the prior year period. Net sales growth versus last year was primarily driven by an increase inBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Net sales included planned reductions of 24% from non-core banner divestitures.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Comparable3sales increased 86% compared to the prior year period, which excludes the impact of the Company's fleet optimization activity. Compared to 2019 fiscal first quarter, total enterprise comparable sales increased 3%, driven by digital sales growth of 84%.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Comparable3sales included an estimated 13% impact from fleet optimization activity when compared to the fiscal 2020 first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales increased 96% compared to the prior year period as the Company had a significant number of stores closed during the 2020 fiscal first quarter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales were driven by growth in its key destination categories, which includes Bedding, Bath,Kitchen Food Prep,Indoor Decor and Home Organization. In total, these categories delivered strong sales growth of more than 100% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter and growth of 7% on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. These categories represented approximately two-thirds of totalBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales in the first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>The buybuy BABY banner continued to deliver positive sales growth with net sales increasing more than 20% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter, and an increase of low-single digits on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. Comparable sales were driven by more than 50% growth in digital.</li>\n <li>Gross margin was 32.4% for the quarter. Excluding special items from both periods, adjusted2gross margin increased 820 basis points to 34.9%, primarily driven by a favorable product mix from Owned Brand launches as well as a more normalized mix of digital sales coupled with a strong recovery in store sales growth.</li>\n <li>SG&amp;A expense, on both a GAAP and adjusted basis, decreased significantly compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions including divestitures of non-core assets and lower rent and occupancy expenses on more efficient stores. This was partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Adjusted2EBITDA for the period improved to$86 millioncompared to last year, primarily due to higher sales and adjusted2gross margin expansion, which were partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Net loss per diluted share of$0.48includes approximately$56 millionfrom special items. Excluding special items, adjusted2net earnings per diluted share was$0.05. Special items reflect charges such as non-cash impairments related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, and charges recorded in connection with the Company's restructuring and transformation initiatives. Restructuring and transformation initiatives includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization, and the income tax impact of these items.</li>\n <li>As expected, operating cash flow usage of$28 millionwas in-line with historical first quarter seasonality and working capital needs. Accordingly, free cash flow5was an investment of$102 millionas a result of$74 millionof planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and IT systems.</li>\n <li>Inventory reduced by approximately$110 millioncompared to the end of fiscal 2020, was primarily related to seasonal selling and product transitions in preparation for the introduction of the Company's Owned Brands, as well as store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization activity.</li>\n <li>$130 millionin capital return to shareholders through share repurchases.</li>\n <li>Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments balance were approximately$1.2 billion.</li>\n <li>Total Liquidity4was approximately$1.9 billion, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Guidance Outlook</u></b></p>\n<p>As a reminder,Net Salesthroughout fiscal 2021 include the Company's Core1businesses and reflects planned reductions related to the Company's store fleet optimization activity.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal 2021 Second Quarter Outlook</u></p>\n<p>The Company expects fiscal 2021 second quarterNet Salesof between$2.04 billionto$2.08 billion, which only reflects sales from the Company's Core1businesses.&nbsp;Net Salesalso includes planned sales reductions from the Company's store fleet optimization program of approximately 9% to 10%. On a Comparable Sales basis, the Company expects to achieve growth in the low-single digit range compared to the prior year period.</p>\n<p>The Company expects to achieve Adjusted2Gross Margin in the range of 35% to 36%.&nbsp; This represents a sequential improvement versus the 2021 fiscal first quarter primarily driven by continued assortment curation and a higher penetration of the Company's Owned Brands.&nbsp; Additionally, this guidance reflects the on-going, year-over-year impact of higher, industry-wide freight costs.</p>\n<p>The Company expects Adjusted2EBITDA between&nbsp;$150 millionto$160 millionand Adjusted2EPS in the range of$0.48to$0.55for the fiscal 2021 second quarter.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</u></p>\n<p>Based on strong performance in the fiscal first quarter and current expectations for the fiscal second quarter, the Company is raising its fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook.</p>\n<p>The Company now expects higher fiscal year 2021 Net Sales of$8.2 billionto$8.4 billionfrom$8.0 billionto$8.2 billion. The Company is raising comparable sales expectations for the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2021 to the Low-Single Digit growth range versus its previously communicated guidance outlook for Flat comparable sales growth.&nbsp; This compares to the Company's robust sales performance during the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2020.</p>\n<p>The Company is also increasing its Adjusted2EBITDA guidance to a range of$520 millionto$540 millionfrom$500 millionto$525 millionand re-introduces a full fiscal year 2021 Adjusted2EPS range of$1.40to$1.55.</p>\n<p>The Company is reaffirming its previously issued guidance for Adjusted2Gross Margin of approximately 35% and Adjusted2SG&amp;A of approximately 31%.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BBBY":"3B家居"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1167249015","content_text":"Net Sales of $1,954M\nCore Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%\nGAAP Gross Margin of 32.4%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 34.9%\nAdjusted EBITDA of $86 Million\nRaises Full Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook\nBed Bath &Beyond Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 ended May 29, 2021.\n\nBed Bath & Beyond shares surged 7% in premarket trading.\n\nQ1 Highlights\n\nCore1Sales growth of +73%; Comparable3Sales growth of +86% versus Q1 2020\nComparable Sales growth for Total Enterprise +3% compared to Q1 2019\nGross Margin of 32.4% and Adjusted2Gross Margin of 34.9%, primarily driven by Owned Brand launches and channel mix shift due to normalized digital penetration versus the COVID-19 period last year\nQ1 Adjusted2EBITDA of$86 millioninclusive of incremental marketing investments during the quarter\nEstablishes guidance outlook for 2021 second quarter\nRaises full fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook on Sales and Adjusted2EBITDA; Re-establishes Adjusted EPS guidance\n\nFiscal 2021 First Quarter Results (March-April-May)\n\nNet sales were$1.95 billion, reflecting Core1banner sales growth of 73% compared to the prior year period. Net sales growth versus last year was primarily driven by an increase inBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales.\n\nNet sales included planned reductions of 24% from non-core banner divestitures.\n\nComparable3sales increased 86% compared to the prior year period, which excludes the impact of the Company's fleet optimization activity. Compared to 2019 fiscal first quarter, total enterprise comparable sales increased 3%, driven by digital sales growth of 84%.\n\nComparable3sales included an estimated 13% impact from fleet optimization activity when compared to the fiscal 2020 first quarter.\n\nBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales increased 96% compared to the prior year period as the Company had a significant number of stores closed during the 2020 fiscal first quarter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales were driven by growth in its key destination categories, which includes Bedding, Bath,Kitchen Food Prep,Indoor Decor and Home Organization. In total, these categories delivered strong sales growth of more than 100% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter and growth of 7% on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. These categories represented approximately two-thirds of totalBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales in the first quarter.\n\nThe buybuy BABY banner continued to deliver positive sales growth with net sales increasing more than 20% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter, and an increase of low-single digits on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. Comparable sales were driven by more than 50% growth in digital.\nGross margin was 32.4% for the quarter. Excluding special items from both periods, adjusted2gross margin increased 820 basis points to 34.9%, primarily driven by a favorable product mix from Owned Brand launches as well as a more normalized mix of digital sales coupled with a strong recovery in store sales growth.\nSG&A expense, on both a GAAP and adjusted basis, decreased significantly compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions including divestitures of non-core assets and lower rent and occupancy expenses on more efficient stores. This was partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.\nAdjusted2EBITDA for the period improved to$86 millioncompared to last year, primarily due to higher sales and adjusted2gross margin expansion, which were partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.\nNet loss per diluted share of$0.48includes approximately$56 millionfrom special items. Excluding special items, adjusted2net earnings per diluted share was$0.05. Special items reflect charges such as non-cash impairments related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, and charges recorded in connection with the Company's restructuring and transformation initiatives. Restructuring and transformation initiatives includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization, and the income tax impact of these items.\nAs expected, operating cash flow usage of$28 millionwas in-line with historical first quarter seasonality and working capital needs. Accordingly, free cash flow5was an investment of$102 millionas a result of$74 millionof planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and IT systems.\nInventory reduced by approximately$110 millioncompared to the end of fiscal 2020, was primarily related to seasonal selling and product transitions in preparation for the introduction of the Company's Owned Brands, as well as store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization activity.\n$130 millionin capital return to shareholders through share repurchases.\nCash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments balance were approximately$1.2 billion.\nTotal Liquidity4was approximately$1.9 billion, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility.\n\nGuidance Outlook\nAs a reminder,Net Salesthroughout fiscal 2021 include the Company's Core1businesses and reflects planned reductions related to the Company's store fleet optimization activity.\nFiscal 2021 Second Quarter Outlook\nThe Company expects fiscal 2021 second quarterNet Salesof between$2.04 billionto$2.08 billion, which only reflects sales from the Company's Core1businesses. Net Salesalso includes planned sales reductions from the Company's store fleet optimization program of approximately 9% to 10%. On a Comparable Sales basis, the Company expects to achieve growth in the low-single digit range compared to the prior year period.\nThe Company expects to achieve Adjusted2Gross Margin in the range of 35% to 36%.  This represents a sequential improvement versus the 2021 fiscal first quarter primarily driven by continued assortment curation and a higher penetration of the Company's Owned Brands.  Additionally, this guidance reflects the on-going, year-over-year impact of higher, industry-wide freight costs.\nThe Company expects Adjusted2EBITDA between $150 millionto$160 millionand Adjusted2EPS in the range of$0.48to$0.55for the fiscal 2021 second quarter.\nFiscal Year 2021 Outlook\nBased on strong performance in the fiscal first quarter and current expectations for the fiscal second quarter, the Company is raising its fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook.\nThe Company now expects higher fiscal year 2021 Net Sales of$8.2 billionto$8.4 billionfrom$8.0 billionto$8.2 billion. 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There’s Reason to Worry About What Comes Next.","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1121501806","media":"Barron's","summary":"Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.\nThis past week, the world’s fiv","content":"<p>Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.</p>\n<p>This past week, the world’s five largest tech companies—<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a>(ticker: AAPL),<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a>(MSFT),<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AMZN\">Amazon.com</a>(AMZN),<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">Alphabet</a>(GOOGL), andFacebook(FB)—all reported quarterly results. Their collective performance was astonishing. As a group, their revenue increased 36%, to $332 billion. These companies spent the pandemic making gobs of money.</p>\n<p>Butinvestors were unimpressed. While <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">Alphabet</a> inched 1.3% higher for the week, the others were all down. Amazongot the worst reception; its stock fell 7.6% on Friday. With all five hovering near all-time highs, investors are taking profits, worried that growth rates are going to slow from here. Beneath the surface, the concerns are well founded. Here are the key takeaways from Big Tech’s huge earnings:</p>\n<p><b>The pandemic boom is over.</b>That’s not to say the pandemic itself is over—the Delta variant is wreaking havoc—but Americans have already made changes in their behavior, and those adjustments are having a major impact on the tech giants.</p>\n<p>It starts with e-commerce. Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said on the company’s earnings call that starting in mid-May, growth in e-commerce sales dropped into the midteens from the 30%-to-40% range. People are getting vaccines and leaving the house to buy things that just a few months ago they would have bought online. They’re also shifting some disposable income from online shopping to travel, restaurants, and even events. Olsavsky sees continued tough comparisons for Amazon—and midteens growth rates—for the next few quarters.</p>\n<p>Applebeat expectations in all of its segments, but growth is slowing there, too. Mac sales were up 16% in the June quarter, down from 70% growth three months earlier. iPad sales were up 12%, versus 79% in the March period. This is all still better than before the pandemic, but it suggests that the furious shopping spree for home offices and virtual schooling is coming to an end.Logitech(LOGI), which makes PC peripherals like mice and webcams, had 66% revenue growth in the June quarter, but it sees flat revenue for its fiscal year ending in March 2022.</p>\n<p><b>Component shortages continue.</b>The market’s biggest issue with <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/AAPL\">Apple</a>’s quarter was its warning that the chip supply shortage has worsened since the end of June—and that the issue will affect the availability of iPads and, even worse, iPhones. In September, Apple is expected torelease the iPhone 13—and there’s a risk that Apple might not be able to meet demand.<a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/QCOM\">Qualcomm</a>(QCOM) this past week warned that the chip shortage could drag into 2022. This could take a while to fix.</p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call that shipping costs are higher, too. I saw evidence of that from my seat at a San Francisco Giants game this past week. Looking past McCovey Cove toward San Francisco <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/BYBK\">Bay</a>, there were at least a dozen container ships lined up to get into the Port of Oakland, which saw an 11% increase in cargo volume in the first half. The port is backed up in part due to a shortage of dockworkers. Freight rates are at record levels, and the holiday merchandising season is fast approaching, adding to demand for freight capacity.</p>\n<p><b>Online advertising is blazing hot.</b>On a brighter note for investors, <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOG\">Alphabet</a>’sad business grew 68% in the latest quarter, including an 84% jump in advertising at YouTube. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/FB\">Facebook</a>’sad business grew 56%, driven by a 47% year-over-year increase in ad pricing. Amazon’s “other” revenue category, mostly ads, was up 87%, to $7.9 billion, nearly $1 billion better than Wall Street estimates. Apple doesn’t break out advertising, but ad strength contributed to the 33% growth in the company’s services business. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/MSFT\">Microsoft</a> saw a53% jump in search ads(remember Bing?) and a 97% jump in advertising at <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/LNKD\">LinkedIn</a>. It all stems from the reopening of the economy. <a href=\"https://laohu8.com/S/GOOGL\">Alphabet</a> told analysts that the biggest driver of ad growth was retail, with strong contributions from travel, financial services, and media and entertainment. People are shopping, eating out, and going on vacation, and that’s driving ads.</p>\n<p><b>Cloud adoption is accelerating.</b>The digital transformation trend that everyone in enterprise computing talks about is the real deal. For Amazon, the slowdown in e-commerce growth overshadowed a fantastic quarter for its Amazon Web Services cloud unit, which grew 37%—accelerating from 32% in the March quarter— to $14.8 billion. That was $500 million better than estimates. Microsoft Azure revenue was up 51%, beating the Wall Street consensus by nine percentage points. Alphabet posted 54% growth in its Google Cloud business, accelerating from 46% growth in the March quarter. Google Cloud is rapidly approaching a $20 billion annual revenue run rate. Give it a cloud-like sales multiple of 20 times and the business is worth $400 billion, constituting more than 20% of Alphabet’s current market value.</p>\n<p><b>The wild card.</b>Regulators and legislators scrutinizing Big Tech are surely looking at the latest results and finding a new sense of purpose. The big are getting bigger. And the regulatory risks are getting riskier.</p>","source":"lsy1610680873436","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Big Tech Earnings Sparkled. 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There’s Reason to Worry About What Comes Next.\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-07-31 07:18 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/big-tech-earnings-stocks-51627680068?mod=mw_latestnews><strong>Barron's</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.\nThis past week, the world’s five largest tech companies—Apple(ticker: AAPL),Microsoft(MSFT),Amazon.com(AMZN),Alphabet(GOOGL), ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/big-tech-earnings-stocks-51627680068?mod=mw_latestnews\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"AAPL":"苹果","AMZN":"亚马逊","GOOGL":"谷歌A","GOOG":"谷歌","MSFT":"微软"},"source_url":"https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/big-tech-earnings-stocks-51627680068?mod=mw_latestnews","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1121501806","content_text":"Big tech stocks keep getting bigger. Their market caps, not so much.\nThis past week, the world’s five largest tech companies—Apple(ticker: AAPL),Microsoft(MSFT),Amazon.com(AMZN),Alphabet(GOOGL), andFacebook(FB)—all reported quarterly results. Their collective performance was astonishing. As a group, their revenue increased 36%, to $332 billion. These companies spent the pandemic making gobs of money.\nButinvestors were unimpressed. While Alphabet inched 1.3% higher for the week, the others were all down. Amazongot the worst reception; its stock fell 7.6% on Friday. With all five hovering near all-time highs, investors are taking profits, worried that growth rates are going to slow from here. Beneath the surface, the concerns are well founded. Here are the key takeaways from Big Tech’s huge earnings:\nThe pandemic boom is over.That’s not to say the pandemic itself is over—the Delta variant is wreaking havoc—but Americans have already made changes in their behavior, and those adjustments are having a major impact on the tech giants.\nIt starts with e-commerce. Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said on the company’s earnings call that starting in mid-May, growth in e-commerce sales dropped into the midteens from the 30%-to-40% range. People are getting vaccines and leaving the house to buy things that just a few months ago they would have bought online. They’re also shifting some disposable income from online shopping to travel, restaurants, and even events. Olsavsky sees continued tough comparisons for Amazon—and midteens growth rates—for the next few quarters.\nApplebeat expectations in all of its segments, but growth is slowing there, too. Mac sales were up 16% in the June quarter, down from 70% growth three months earlier. iPad sales were up 12%, versus 79% in the March period. This is all still better than before the pandemic, but it suggests that the furious shopping spree for home offices and virtual schooling is coming to an end.Logitech(LOGI), which makes PC peripherals like mice and webcams, had 66% revenue growth in the June quarter, but it sees flat revenue for its fiscal year ending in March 2022.\nComponent shortages continue.The market’s biggest issue with Apple’s quarter was its warning that the chip supply shortage has worsened since the end of June—and that the issue will affect the availability of iPads and, even worse, iPhones. In September, Apple is expected torelease the iPhone 13—and there’s a risk that Apple might not be able to meet demand.Qualcomm(QCOM) this past week warned that the chip shortage could drag into 2022. This could take a while to fix.\nMeanwhile, Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call that shipping costs are higher, too. I saw evidence of that from my seat at a San Francisco Giants game this past week. Looking past McCovey Cove toward San Francisco Bay, there were at least a dozen container ships lined up to get into the Port of Oakland, which saw an 11% increase in cargo volume in the first half. The port is backed up in part due to a shortage of dockworkers. Freight rates are at record levels, and the holiday merchandising season is fast approaching, adding to demand for freight capacity.\nOnline advertising is blazing hot.On a brighter note for investors, Alphabet’sad business grew 68% in the latest quarter, including an 84% jump in advertising at YouTube. Facebook’sad business grew 56%, driven by a 47% year-over-year increase in ad pricing. Amazon’s “other” revenue category, mostly ads, was up 87%, to $7.9 billion, nearly $1 billion better than Wall Street estimates. Apple doesn’t break out advertising, but ad strength contributed to the 33% growth in the company’s services business. Microsoft saw a53% jump in search ads(remember Bing?) and a 97% jump in advertising at LinkedIn. It all stems from the reopening of the economy. Alphabet told analysts that the biggest driver of ad growth was retail, with strong contributions from travel, financial services, and media and entertainment. People are shopping, eating out, and going on vacation, and that’s driving ads.\nCloud adoption is accelerating.The digital transformation trend that everyone in enterprise computing talks about is the real deal. For Amazon, the slowdown in e-commerce growth overshadowed a fantastic quarter for its Amazon Web Services cloud unit, which grew 37%—accelerating from 32% in the March quarter— to $14.8 billion. That was $500 million better than estimates. Microsoft Azure revenue was up 51%, beating the Wall Street consensus by nine percentage points. Alphabet posted 54% growth in its Google Cloud business, accelerating from 46% growth in the March quarter. Google Cloud is rapidly approaching a $20 billion annual revenue run rate. Give it a cloud-like sales multiple of 20 times and the business is worth $400 billion, constituting more than 20% of Alphabet’s current market value.\nThe wild card.Regulators and legislators scrutinizing Big Tech are surely looking at the latest results and finding a new sense of purpose. The big are getting bigger. And the regulatory risks are getting riskier.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":182,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"CN","totalScore":0},{"id":802748380,"gmtCreate":1627813597140,"gmtModify":1633756172151,"author":{"id":"3583833149933231","authorId":"3583833149933231","authorIdStr":"3583833149933231","name":"Jinchua21","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3583833149933231"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"Good","listText":"Good","text":"Good","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/802748380","repostId":"1141267906","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1141267906","pubTimestamp":1627780653,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1141267906?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-08-01 09:17","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Cathie Wood Is Just a Start as Stock Pickers Storm the ETF World","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1141267906","media":"Bloomberg","summary":"(Bloomberg) -- Record inflows. Record fund launches. Record assets. If active money management is in","content":"<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/a4418a4a4b2639ef5a68e4da556a6c1b\" tg-width=\"958\" tg-height=\"562\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"></p>\n<p>(Bloomberg) -- Record inflows. Record fund launches. Record assets. If active money management is in decline, someone forgot to tell the ETF industry.</p>\n<p>Amped up by a meme-crazed market and emboldened by the success of Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management, stock pickers are storming the $6.6 trillion U.S. exchange-traded fund universe like never before -- adding a new twist in the 50-year invasion from passive investing.</p>\n<p>Passive funds still dominate the industry, but actively managed products have cut into that lead, scooping up three-times their share of the unprecedented $500 billion plowed into ETFs in 2021, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. New active funds are arriving at double the rate of passive rivals, and the cohort has boosted its market share by a third in a year.</p>\n<p>“Historically, people have thought about ETFs as being indexed-based,” said Todd Rosenbluth, head of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA Research. “Then Ark became a household name, and then investors came to realize that not only were those products worth looking at, but so were others.”</p>\n<p>None of this is supposed to happen in an industry built on the magic of indexing. Yet a market roller coaster brought on by the pandemic is helping discretionary asset managers turn ETFs to their own advantage.</p>\n<p>Equity conditions in general have become conducive to an active approach, leadership shifting in a stop-start economy, an unpredictable macro backdrop, and increased market breadth.</p>\n<p>Read more: Active Funds Crushed Equity Benchmarks in May Like Never Before</p>\n<p>At the same time, investors are showing an unusual willingness to make concentrated bets, from riding the meme-stock madness to following the kind of thematic vision laid out by Wood.</p>\n<p>They’ve poured $62 billion into active ETFs year-to-date. That’s 12% of total flows going to a slice of the market with only 4% of assets. In the rush to tap the burgeoning demand, issuers have now launched 156 actively managed products in 2021, compared with 77 passive funds.</p>\n<p>“At the end of day, the ETF is just a wrapper, it’s just a way to package and distribute an investment strategy,” said Ben Johnson, director of global ETF research at Morningstar. “More investors are getting hip to the fact that the notion of an actively-managed ETF is not an oxymoron.”</p>\n<p>Fifty-Year Battle</p>\n<p>The active surge is the latest development in a money-management battle that’s been raging since July 1971, when a team at Wells Fargo &amp; Co. created the original index fund.</p>\n<p>Today, the passive juggernaut is slashing industry costs, opening up investing to the masses and forcing discretionary traders to adapt or die. Active launches may be booming, but the bulk of cash flooding U.S. stocks is still destined for big, cheap funds that do nothing but track the market.</p>\n<p>Read more: Wall Street Surrenders to the $500 Billion ETF Rush</p>\n<p>“Active ETFs are doing better than they have in past, but passive is still king,” said James Seyffart, an ETF analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. “A lot of that active flow in the big months from late 2020 to early 2021 is to Cathie’s funds.”</p>\n<p>Wood has become the poster child for active management in ETFs. The flagship fund at Ark was one of the best-performing in America last year with a 149% return.</p>\n<p>Inspired by this and her enticing thematic approach -- which focuses on trends like robotics or space travel rather than market segments -- investors have sunk $14.5 billion into Ark funds in 2021.</p>\n<p>Passive Attack</p>\n<p>The mini boom for active ETFs comes not a moment too soon for the stock-picking industry.</p>\n<p>Passive funds -- mutual and exchange-traded -- now manage $11 trillion and are on course to hold 50% of all registered U.S. fund assets within five years, according to BI calculations.</p>\n<p>Critics say the rapidly swelling index industry is blowing bubbles in stock markets, weakening corporate governance and more. And in some ways, it can also hit returns.</p>\n<p>Take Tesla Inc.’s entry into the S&amp;P 500 in December. While discretionary managers could buy Elon Musk’s firm in advance, index funds ended up adding it at an inflated valuation -- and were forced to offload billions of dollars in other stocks to make space in portfolios.</p>\n<p>“Index funds systematically buy high and sell low,” wrote Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates and his colleagues in a June paper. They argued investors would have been better off holding the company pushed out of the index to make way for Tesla.</p>\n<p>The main advantage stock pickers enjoy over their passive peers is more flexibility in deploying their cash. That’s something they’ve been able to bring to ETFs for years -- Wood’s first fund launched in 2014 -- but it was a rule change in 2019 that paved the way for the current jump in activity.</p>\n<p>It made launching ETFs easier, and enabled new structures that could hide the strategy underpinning a fund. That helped lure multiple major Wall Street players to the industry after years of holding out, including the likes of Wells Fargo and T. Rowe Price.</p>\n<p>Talk of discretionary management’s decline is still rampant, but the woes aren’t as bad as they may seem. Even as U.S. active funds -- mutual and ETF -- saw $209 billion exit last year, they closed 2020 with about $13.3 trillion under management. That was a 13% gain from 2019.</p>\n<p>The increase was largely thanks to rising markets, but if the current trend continues, before long it could just as easily be down to ETF growth.</p>\n<p>“We’re going to see the percentage of assets in actively-managed ETFs continue to climb higher,” said Rosenbluth at CFRA. “They’re going to continue to have the opportunity to punch above their weight.”</p>","source":"lsy1584095487587","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Cathie Wood Is Just a Start as Stock Pickers Storm the ETF World</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nCathie Wood Is Just a Start as Stock Pickers Storm the ETF World\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n2021-08-01 09:17 GMT+8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-wood-just-start-stock-120000320.html><strong>Bloomberg</strong></a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<div>\n<p>(Bloomberg) -- Record inflows. Record fund launches. Record assets. If active money management is in decline, someone forgot to tell the ETF industry.\nAmped up by a meme-crazed market and emboldened ...</p>\n\n<a href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-wood-just-start-stock-120000320.html\">Web Link</a>\n\n</div>\n\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{},"source_url":"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/cathie-wood-just-start-stock-120000320.html","is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1141267906","content_text":"(Bloomberg) -- Record inflows. Record fund launches. Record assets. If active money management is in decline, someone forgot to tell the ETF industry.\nAmped up by a meme-crazed market and emboldened by the success of Cathie Wood’s Ark Investment Management, stock pickers are storming the $6.6 trillion U.S. exchange-traded fund universe like never before -- adding a new twist in the 50-year invasion from passive investing.\nPassive funds still dominate the industry, but actively managed products have cut into that lead, scooping up three-times their share of the unprecedented $500 billion plowed into ETFs in 2021, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. New active funds are arriving at double the rate of passive rivals, and the cohort has boosted its market share by a third in a year.\n“Historically, people have thought about ETFs as being indexed-based,” said Todd Rosenbluth, head of ETF and mutual fund research at CFRA Research. “Then Ark became a household name, and then investors came to realize that not only were those products worth looking at, but so were others.”\nNone of this is supposed to happen in an industry built on the magic of indexing. Yet a market roller coaster brought on by the pandemic is helping discretionary asset managers turn ETFs to their own advantage.\nEquity conditions in general have become conducive to an active approach, leadership shifting in a stop-start economy, an unpredictable macro backdrop, and increased market breadth.\nRead more: Active Funds Crushed Equity Benchmarks in May Like Never Before\nAt the same time, investors are showing an unusual willingness to make concentrated bets, from riding the meme-stock madness to following the kind of thematic vision laid out by Wood.\nThey’ve poured $62 billion into active ETFs year-to-date. That’s 12% of total flows going to a slice of the market with only 4% of assets. In the rush to tap the burgeoning demand, issuers have now launched 156 actively managed products in 2021, compared with 77 passive funds.\n“At the end of day, the ETF is just a wrapper, it’s just a way to package and distribute an investment strategy,” said Ben Johnson, director of global ETF research at Morningstar. “More investors are getting hip to the fact that the notion of an actively-managed ETF is not an oxymoron.”\nFifty-Year Battle\nThe active surge is the latest development in a money-management battle that’s been raging since July 1971, when a team at Wells Fargo & Co. created the original index fund.\nToday, the passive juggernaut is slashing industry costs, opening up investing to the masses and forcing discretionary traders to adapt or die. Active launches may be booming, but the bulk of cash flooding U.S. stocks is still destined for big, cheap funds that do nothing but track the market.\nRead more: Wall Street Surrenders to the $500 Billion ETF Rush\n“Active ETFs are doing better than they have in past, but passive is still king,” said James Seyffart, an ETF analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. “A lot of that active flow in the big months from late 2020 to early 2021 is to Cathie’s funds.”\nWood has become the poster child for active management in ETFs. The flagship fund at Ark was one of the best-performing in America last year with a 149% return.\nInspired by this and her enticing thematic approach -- which focuses on trends like robotics or space travel rather than market segments -- investors have sunk $14.5 billion into Ark funds in 2021.\nPassive Attack\nThe mini boom for active ETFs comes not a moment too soon for the stock-picking industry.\nPassive funds -- mutual and exchange-traded -- now manage $11 trillion and are on course to hold 50% of all registered U.S. fund assets within five years, according to BI calculations.\nCritics say the rapidly swelling index industry is blowing bubbles in stock markets, weakening corporate governance and more. And in some ways, it can also hit returns.\nTake Tesla Inc.’s entry into the S&P 500 in December. While discretionary managers could buy Elon Musk’s firm in advance, index funds ended up adding it at an inflated valuation -- and were forced to offload billions of dollars in other stocks to make space in portfolios.\n“Index funds systematically buy high and sell low,” wrote Rob Arnott of Research Affiliates and his colleagues in a June paper. They argued investors would have been better off holding the company pushed out of the index to make way for Tesla.\nThe main advantage stock pickers enjoy over their passive peers is more flexibility in deploying their cash. That’s something they’ve been able to bring to ETFs for years -- Wood’s first fund launched in 2014 -- but it was a rule change in 2019 that paved the way for the current jump in activity.\nIt made launching ETFs easier, and enabled new structures that could hide the strategy underpinning a fund. That helped lure multiple major Wall Street players to the industry after years of holding out, including the likes of Wells Fargo and T. Rowe Price.\nTalk of discretionary management’s decline is still rampant, but the woes aren’t as bad as they may seem. Even as U.S. active funds -- mutual and ETF -- saw $209 billion exit last year, they closed 2020 with about $13.3 trillion under management. That was a 13% gain from 2019.\nThe increase was largely thanks to rising markets, but if the current trend continues, before long it could just as easily be down to ETF growth.\n“We’re going to see the percentage of assets in actively-managed ETFs continue to climb higher,” said Rosenbluth at CFRA. “They’re going to continue to have the opportunity to punch above their weight.”","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":7,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0},{"id":151446320,"gmtCreate":1625104306860,"gmtModify":1633944759285,"author":{"id":"3583833149933231","authorId":"3583833149933231","authorIdStr":"3583833149933231","name":"Jinchua21","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"followedFlag":false,"idStr":"3583833149933231"},"themes":[],"htmlText":"👍","listText":"👍","text":"👍","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":0,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/151446320","repostId":"1167249015","repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1167249015","weMediaInfo":{"introduction":"Providing stock market headlines, business news, financials and earnings ","home_visible":1,"media_name":"Tiger Newspress","id":"1079075236","head_image":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba"},"pubTimestamp":1625053653,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1167249015?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-06-30 19:47","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Reports Strong First Quarter Results With Sales And Gross Margin Ahead Of Expectations; Transformation Ahead Of Plan","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1167249015","media":"Tiger Newspress","summary":"Net Sales of $1,954M\nCore Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%\nGAAP Gross Margin of 3","content":"<p><b>Net Sales of $1,954M</b></p>\n<p><b>Core Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%</b></p>\n<p><b>GAAP Gross Margin of 32.4%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 34.9%</b></p>\n<p><b>Adjusted EBITDA of $86 Million</b></p>\n<p><b>Raises Full Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</b></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp;Beyond Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 ended&nbsp;May&nbsp;29, 2021.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bbde26abbfa8e2d0a0eb617f3b285efe\" tg-width=\"937\" tg-height=\"481\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp; Beyond&nbsp;shares&nbsp;surged&nbsp;7%&nbsp;in premarket trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ba5cc7a253c1a20f9a1b0d3f2e6fdbfa\" tg-width=\"924\" tg-height=\"663\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><u>Q1 Highlights</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Core1Sales growth of +73%; Comparable3Sales growth of +86% versus Q1 2020</li>\n <li>Comparable Sales growth for Total Enterprise +3% compared to Q1 2019</li>\n <li>Gross Margin of 32.4% and Adjusted2Gross Margin of 34.9%, primarily driven by Owned Brand launches and channel mix shift due to normalized digital penetration versus the COVID-19 period last year</li>\n <li>Q1 Adjusted2EBITDA of$86 millioninclusive of incremental marketing investments during the quarter</li>\n <li>Establishes guidance outlook for 2021 second quarter</li>\n <li>Raises full fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook on Sales and Adjusted2EBITDA; Re-establishes Adjusted EPS guidance</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Fiscal 2021 First Quarter Results (March-April-May)</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Net sales were$1.95 billion, reflecting Core1banner sales growth of 73% compared to the prior year period. Net sales growth versus last year was primarily driven by an increase inBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Net sales included planned reductions of 24% from non-core banner divestitures.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Comparable3sales increased 86% compared to the prior year period, which excludes the impact of the Company's fleet optimization activity. Compared to 2019 fiscal first quarter, total enterprise comparable sales increased 3%, driven by digital sales growth of 84%.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Comparable3sales included an estimated 13% impact from fleet optimization activity when compared to the fiscal 2020 first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales increased 96% compared to the prior year period as the Company had a significant number of stores closed during the 2020 fiscal first quarter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales were driven by growth in its key destination categories, which includes Bedding, Bath,Kitchen Food Prep,Indoor Decor and Home Organization. In total, these categories delivered strong sales growth of more than 100% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter and growth of 7% on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. These categories represented approximately two-thirds of totalBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales in the first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>The buybuy BABY banner continued to deliver positive sales growth with net sales increasing more than 20% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter, and an increase of low-single digits on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. Comparable sales were driven by more than 50% growth in digital.</li>\n <li>Gross margin was 32.4% for the quarter. Excluding special items from both periods, adjusted2gross margin increased 820 basis points to 34.9%, primarily driven by a favorable product mix from Owned Brand launches as well as a more normalized mix of digital sales coupled with a strong recovery in store sales growth.</li>\n <li>SG&amp;A expense, on both a GAAP and adjusted basis, decreased significantly compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions including divestitures of non-core assets and lower rent and occupancy expenses on more efficient stores. This was partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Adjusted2EBITDA for the period improved to$86 millioncompared to last year, primarily due to higher sales and adjusted2gross margin expansion, which were partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Net loss per diluted share of$0.48includes approximately$56 millionfrom special items. Excluding special items, adjusted2net earnings per diluted share was$0.05. Special items reflect charges such as non-cash impairments related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, and charges recorded in connection with the Company's restructuring and transformation initiatives. Restructuring and transformation initiatives includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization, and the income tax impact of these items.</li>\n <li>As expected, operating cash flow usage of$28 millionwas in-line with historical first quarter seasonality and working capital needs. Accordingly, free cash flow5was an investment of$102 millionas a result of$74 millionof planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and IT systems.</li>\n <li>Inventory reduced by approximately$110 millioncompared to the end of fiscal 2020, was primarily related to seasonal selling and product transitions in preparation for the introduction of the Company's Owned Brands, as well as store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization activity.</li>\n <li>$130 millionin capital return to shareholders through share repurchases.</li>\n <li>Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments balance were approximately$1.2 billion.</li>\n <li>Total Liquidity4was approximately$1.9 billion, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Guidance Outlook</u></b></p>\n<p>As a reminder,Net Salesthroughout fiscal 2021 include the Company's Core1businesses and reflects planned reductions related to the Company's store fleet optimization activity.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal 2021 Second Quarter Outlook</u></p>\n<p>The Company expects fiscal 2021 second quarterNet Salesof between$2.04 billionto$2.08 billion, which only reflects sales from the Company's Core1businesses.&nbsp;Net Salesalso includes planned sales reductions from the Company's store fleet optimization program of approximately 9% to 10%. On a Comparable Sales basis, the Company expects to achieve growth in the low-single digit range compared to the prior year period.</p>\n<p>The Company expects to achieve Adjusted2Gross Margin in the range of 35% to 36%.&nbsp; This represents a sequential improvement versus the 2021 fiscal first quarter primarily driven by continued assortment curation and a higher penetration of the Company's Owned Brands.&nbsp; Additionally, this guidance reflects the on-going, year-over-year impact of higher, industry-wide freight costs.</p>\n<p>The Company expects Adjusted2EBITDA between&nbsp;$150 millionto$160 millionand Adjusted2EPS in the range of$0.48to$0.55for the fiscal 2021 second quarter.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</u></p>\n<p>Based on strong performance in the fiscal first quarter and current expectations for the fiscal second quarter, the Company is raising its fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook.</p>\n<p>The Company now expects higher fiscal year 2021 Net Sales of$8.2 billionto$8.4 billionfrom$8.0 billionto$8.2 billion. The Company is raising comparable sales expectations for the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2021 to the Low-Single Digit growth range versus its previously communicated guidance outlook for Flat comparable sales growth.&nbsp; This compares to the Company's robust sales performance during the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2020.</p>\n<p>The Company is also increasing its Adjusted2EBITDA guidance to a range of$520 millionto$540 millionfrom$500 millionto$525 millionand re-introduces a full fiscal year 2021 Adjusted2EPS range of$1.40to$1.55.</p>\n<p>The Company is reaffirming its previously issued guidance for Adjusted2Gross Margin of approximately 35% and Adjusted2SG&amp;A of approximately 31%.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. Reports Strong First Quarter Results With Sales And Gross Margin Ahead Of Expectations; Transformation Ahead Of Plan</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; line-height:1.5; color:#999; background:transparent; }\n.wrapper{ overflow:hidden;word-break:break-all;padding:10px; }\nh1,h2{ font-weight:normal; line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:.6em; }\nh3,h4,h5,h6{ line-height:1.35; margin-bottom:1em; }\nh1{ font-size:24px; }\nh2{ font-size:20px; }\nh3{ font-size:18px; }\nh4{ font-size:16px; }\nh5{ font-size:14px; }\nh6{ font-size:12px; }\np,ul,ol,blockquote,dl,table{ margin:1.2em 0; }\nul,ol{ margin-left:2em; }\nul{ list-style:disc; }\nol{ list-style:decimal; }\nli,li p{ margin:10px 0;}\nimg{ max-width:100%;display:block;margin:0 auto 1em; }\nblockquote{ color:#B5B2B1; border-left:3px solid #aaa; padding:1em; }\nstrong,b{font-weight:bold;}\nem,i{font-style:italic;}\ntable{ width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:1px;margin:1em 0;font-size:.9em; }\nth,td{ padding:5px;text-align:left;border:1px solid #aaa; }\nth{ font-weight:bold;background:#5d5d5d; }\n.symbol-link{font-weight:bold;}\n/* header{ border-bottom:1px solid #494756; } */\n.title{ margin:0 0 8px;line-height:1.3;color:#ddd; }\n.meta {color:#5e5c6d;font-size:13px;margin:0 0 .5em; }\na{text-decoration:none; color:#2a4b87;}\n.meta .head { display: inline-block; overflow: hidden}\n.head .h-thumb { width: 30px; height: 30px; margin: 0; padding: 0; border-radius: 50%; float: left;}\n.head .h-content { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 0 9px; float: left;}\n.head .h-name {font-size: 13px; color: #eee; margin: 0;}\n.head .h-time {font-size: 11px; color: #7E829C; margin: 0;line-height: 11px;}\n.small {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.9); -webkit-transform: scale(0.9); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.smaller {font-size: 12.5px; display: inline-block; transform: scale(0.8); -webkit-transform: scale(0.8); transform-origin: left; -webkit-transform-origin: left;}\n.bt-text {font-size: 12px;margin: 1.5em 0 0 0}\n.bt-text p {margin: 0}\n</style>\n</head>\n<body>\n<div class=\"wrapper\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"title\">\nBed Bath & Beyond Inc. Reports Strong First Quarter Results With Sales And Gross Margin Ahead Of Expectations; Transformation Ahead Of Plan\n</h2>\n\n<h4 class=\"meta\">\n\n\n<a class=\"head\" href=\"https://laohu8.com/wemedia/1079075236\">\n\n\n<div class=\"h-thumb\" style=\"background-image:url(https://static.tigerbbs.com/8274c5b9d4c2852bfb1c4d6ce16c68ba);background-size:cover;\"></div>\n\n<div class=\"h-content\">\n<p class=\"h-name\">Tiger Newspress </p>\n<p class=\"h-time\">2021-06-30 19:47</p>\n</div>\n\n</a>\n\n\n</h4>\n\n</header>\n<article>\n<p><b>Net Sales of $1,954M</b></p>\n<p><b>Core Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%</b></p>\n<p><b>GAAP Gross Margin of 32.4%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 34.9%</b></p>\n<p><b>Adjusted EBITDA of $86 Million</b></p>\n<p><b>Raises Full Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</b></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp;Beyond Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 ended&nbsp;May&nbsp;29, 2021.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/bbde26abbfa8e2d0a0eb617f3b285efe\" tg-width=\"937\" tg-height=\"481\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p>Bed Bath &amp; Beyond&nbsp;shares&nbsp;surged&nbsp;7%&nbsp;in premarket trading.</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/ba5cc7a253c1a20f9a1b0d3f2e6fdbfa\" tg-width=\"924\" tg-height=\"663\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"></p>\n<p><b><u>Q1 Highlights</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Core1Sales growth of +73%; Comparable3Sales growth of +86% versus Q1 2020</li>\n <li>Comparable Sales growth for Total Enterprise +3% compared to Q1 2019</li>\n <li>Gross Margin of 32.4% and Adjusted2Gross Margin of 34.9%, primarily driven by Owned Brand launches and channel mix shift due to normalized digital penetration versus the COVID-19 period last year</li>\n <li>Q1 Adjusted2EBITDA of$86 millioninclusive of incremental marketing investments during the quarter</li>\n <li>Establishes guidance outlook for 2021 second quarter</li>\n <li>Raises full fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook on Sales and Adjusted2EBITDA; Re-establishes Adjusted EPS guidance</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Fiscal 2021 First Quarter Results (March-April-May)</u></b></p>\n<ul>\n <li>Net sales were$1.95 billion, reflecting Core1banner sales growth of 73% compared to the prior year period. Net sales growth versus last year was primarily driven by an increase inBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Net sales included planned reductions of 24% from non-core banner divestitures.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Comparable3sales increased 86% compared to the prior year period, which excludes the impact of the Company's fleet optimization activity. Compared to 2019 fiscal first quarter, total enterprise comparable sales increased 3%, driven by digital sales growth of 84%.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Comparable3sales included an estimated 13% impact from fleet optimization activity when compared to the fiscal 2020 first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales increased 96% compared to the prior year period as the Company had a significant number of stores closed during the 2020 fiscal first quarter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.</li>\n <ul>\n  <li>Bed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales were driven by growth in its key destination categories, which includes Bedding, Bath,Kitchen Food Prep,Indoor Decor and Home Organization. In total, these categories delivered strong sales growth of more than 100% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter and growth of 7% on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. These categories represented approximately two-thirds of totalBed Bath &amp; Beyondbanner sales in the first quarter.</li>\n </ul>\n <li>The buybuy BABY banner continued to deliver positive sales growth with net sales increasing more than 20% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter, and an increase of low-single digits on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. Comparable sales were driven by more than 50% growth in digital.</li>\n <li>Gross margin was 32.4% for the quarter. Excluding special items from both periods, adjusted2gross margin increased 820 basis points to 34.9%, primarily driven by a favorable product mix from Owned Brand launches as well as a more normalized mix of digital sales coupled with a strong recovery in store sales growth.</li>\n <li>SG&amp;A expense, on both a GAAP and adjusted basis, decreased significantly compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions including divestitures of non-core assets and lower rent and occupancy expenses on more efficient stores. This was partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Adjusted2EBITDA for the period improved to$86 millioncompared to last year, primarily due to higher sales and adjusted2gross margin expansion, which were partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.</li>\n <li>Net loss per diluted share of$0.48includes approximately$56 millionfrom special items. Excluding special items, adjusted2net earnings per diluted share was$0.05. Special items reflect charges such as non-cash impairments related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, and charges recorded in connection with the Company's restructuring and transformation initiatives. Restructuring and transformation initiatives includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization, and the income tax impact of these items.</li>\n <li>As expected, operating cash flow usage of$28 millionwas in-line with historical first quarter seasonality and working capital needs. Accordingly, free cash flow5was an investment of$102 millionas a result of$74 millionof planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and IT systems.</li>\n <li>Inventory reduced by approximately$110 millioncompared to the end of fiscal 2020, was primarily related to seasonal selling and product transitions in preparation for the introduction of the Company's Owned Brands, as well as store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization activity.</li>\n <li>$130 millionin capital return to shareholders through share repurchases.</li>\n <li>Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments balance were approximately$1.2 billion.</li>\n <li>Total Liquidity4was approximately$1.9 billion, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><b><u>Guidance Outlook</u></b></p>\n<p>As a reminder,Net Salesthroughout fiscal 2021 include the Company's Core1businesses and reflects planned reductions related to the Company's store fleet optimization activity.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal 2021 Second Quarter Outlook</u></p>\n<p>The Company expects fiscal 2021 second quarterNet Salesof between$2.04 billionto$2.08 billion, which only reflects sales from the Company's Core1businesses.&nbsp;Net Salesalso includes planned sales reductions from the Company's store fleet optimization program of approximately 9% to 10%. On a Comparable Sales basis, the Company expects to achieve growth in the low-single digit range compared to the prior year period.</p>\n<p>The Company expects to achieve Adjusted2Gross Margin in the range of 35% to 36%.&nbsp; This represents a sequential improvement versus the 2021 fiscal first quarter primarily driven by continued assortment curation and a higher penetration of the Company's Owned Brands.&nbsp; Additionally, this guidance reflects the on-going, year-over-year impact of higher, industry-wide freight costs.</p>\n<p>The Company expects Adjusted2EBITDA between&nbsp;$150 millionto$160 millionand Adjusted2EPS in the range of$0.48to$0.55for the fiscal 2021 second quarter.</p>\n<p><u>Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook</u></p>\n<p>Based on strong performance in the fiscal first quarter and current expectations for the fiscal second quarter, the Company is raising its fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook.</p>\n<p>The Company now expects higher fiscal year 2021 Net Sales of$8.2 billionto$8.4 billionfrom$8.0 billionto$8.2 billion. The Company is raising comparable sales expectations for the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2021 to the Low-Single Digit growth range versus its previously communicated guidance outlook for Flat comparable sales growth.&nbsp; This compares to the Company's robust sales performance during the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2020.</p>\n<p>The Company is also increasing its Adjusted2EBITDA guidance to a range of$520 millionto$540 millionfrom$500 millionto$525 millionand re-introduces a full fiscal year 2021 Adjusted2EPS range of$1.40to$1.55.</p>\n<p>The Company is reaffirming its previously issued guidance for Adjusted2Gross Margin of approximately 35% and Adjusted2SG&amp;A of approximately 31%.</p>\n\n</article>\n</div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","type":0,"thumbnail":"","relate_stocks":{"BBBY":"3B家居"},"is_english":true,"share_image_url":"https://static.laohu8.com/e9f99090a1c2ed51c021029395664489","article_id":"1167249015","content_text":"Net Sales of $1,954M\nCore Sales Growth of 73%; Comparable Sales Growth of 86%\nGAAP Gross Margin of 32.4%; Adjusted Gross Margin of 34.9%\nAdjusted EBITDA of $86 Million\nRaises Full Fiscal Year 2021 Outlook\nBed Bath &Beyond Inc.(NASDAQ: BBBY) today reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2021 ended May 29, 2021.\n\nBed Bath & Beyond shares surged 7% in premarket trading.\n\nQ1 Highlights\n\nCore1Sales growth of +73%; Comparable3Sales growth of +86% versus Q1 2020\nComparable Sales growth for Total Enterprise +3% compared to Q1 2019\nGross Margin of 32.4% and Adjusted2Gross Margin of 34.9%, primarily driven by Owned Brand launches and channel mix shift due to normalized digital penetration versus the COVID-19 period last year\nQ1 Adjusted2EBITDA of$86 millioninclusive of incremental marketing investments during the quarter\nEstablishes guidance outlook for 2021 second quarter\nRaises full fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook on Sales and Adjusted2EBITDA; Re-establishes Adjusted EPS guidance\n\nFiscal 2021 First Quarter Results (March-April-May)\n\nNet sales were$1.95 billion, reflecting Core1banner sales growth of 73% compared to the prior year period. Net sales growth versus last year was primarily driven by an increase inBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales.\n\nNet sales included planned reductions of 24% from non-core banner divestitures.\n\nComparable3sales increased 86% compared to the prior year period, which excludes the impact of the Company's fleet optimization activity. Compared to 2019 fiscal first quarter, total enterprise comparable sales increased 3%, driven by digital sales growth of 84%.\n\nComparable3sales included an estimated 13% impact from fleet optimization activity when compared to the fiscal 2020 first quarter.\n\nBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales increased 96% compared to the prior year period as the Company had a significant number of stores closed during the 2020 fiscal first quarter at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.\n\nBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales were driven by growth in its key destination categories, which includes Bedding, Bath,Kitchen Food Prep,Indoor Decor and Home Organization. In total, these categories delivered strong sales growth of more than 100% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter and growth of 7% on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. These categories represented approximately two-thirds of totalBed Bath & Beyondbanner sales in the first quarter.\n\nThe buybuy BABY banner continued to deliver positive sales growth with net sales increasing more than 20% compared to the 2020 fiscal first quarter, and an increase of low-single digits on a comparable sales basis versus the 2019 fiscal first quarter. Comparable sales were driven by more than 50% growth in digital.\nGross margin was 32.4% for the quarter. Excluding special items from both periods, adjusted2gross margin increased 820 basis points to 34.9%, primarily driven by a favorable product mix from Owned Brand launches as well as a more normalized mix of digital sales coupled with a strong recovery in store sales growth.\nSG&A expense, on both a GAAP and adjusted basis, decreased significantly compared to the prior year period, primarily due to cost reductions including divestitures of non-core assets and lower rent and occupancy expenses on more efficient stores. This was partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.\nAdjusted2EBITDA for the period improved to$86 millioncompared to last year, primarily due to higher sales and adjusted2gross margin expansion, which were partially offset by incremental marketing investments to support the Company's \"Home, Happier\" campaign as well as the initial launches of the Company's Owned Brands.\nNet loss per diluted share of$0.48includes approximately$56 millionfrom special items. Excluding special items, adjusted2net earnings per diluted share was$0.05. Special items reflect charges such as non-cash impairments related to certain store-level assets and tradenames, loss on sale of businesses, loss on the extinguishment of debt, and charges recorded in connection with the Company's restructuring and transformation initiatives. Restructuring and transformation initiatives includes accelerated markdowns and inventory reserves related to the planned assortment transition to Owned Brands and costs associated with store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization, and the income tax impact of these items.\nAs expected, operating cash flow usage of$28 millionwas in-line with historical first quarter seasonality and working capital needs. Accordingly, free cash flow5was an investment of$102 millionas a result of$74 millionof planned capital expenditures in connection with store remodels, supply chain and IT systems.\nInventory reduced by approximately$110 millioncompared to the end of fiscal 2020, was primarily related to seasonal selling and product transitions in preparation for the introduction of the Company's Owned Brands, as well as store closures related to the Company's fleet optimization activity.\n$130 millionin capital return to shareholders through share repurchases.\nCash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and investments balance were approximately$1.2 billion.\nTotal Liquidity4was approximately$1.9 billion, including the Company's asset based revolving credit facility.\n\nGuidance Outlook\nAs a reminder,Net Salesthroughout fiscal 2021 include the Company's Core1businesses and reflects planned reductions related to the Company's store fleet optimization activity.\nFiscal 2021 Second Quarter Outlook\nThe Company expects fiscal 2021 second quarterNet Salesof between$2.04 billionto$2.08 billion, which only reflects sales from the Company's Core1businesses. Net Salesalso includes planned sales reductions from the Company's store fleet optimization program of approximately 9% to 10%. On a Comparable Sales basis, the Company expects to achieve growth in the low-single digit range compared to the prior year period.\nThe Company expects to achieve Adjusted2Gross Margin in the range of 35% to 36%.  This represents a sequential improvement versus the 2021 fiscal first quarter primarily driven by continued assortment curation and a higher penetration of the Company's Owned Brands.  Additionally, this guidance reflects the on-going, year-over-year impact of higher, industry-wide freight costs.\nThe Company expects Adjusted2EBITDA between $150 millionto$160 millionand Adjusted2EPS in the range of$0.48to$0.55for the fiscal 2021 second quarter.\nFiscal Year 2021 Outlook\nBased on strong performance in the fiscal first quarter and current expectations for the fiscal second quarter, the Company is raising its fiscal year 2021 guidance outlook.\nThe Company now expects higher fiscal year 2021 Net Sales of$8.2 billionto$8.4 billionfrom$8.0 billionto$8.2 billion. The Company is raising comparable sales expectations for the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2021 to the Low-Single Digit growth range versus its previously communicated guidance outlook for Flat comparable sales growth.  This compares to the Company's robust sales performance during the second through fourth quarters of fiscal 2020.\nThe Company is also increasing its Adjusted2EBITDA guidance to a range of$520 millionto$540 millionfrom$500 millionto$525 millionand re-introduces a full fiscal year 2021 Adjusted2EPS range of$1.40to$1.55.\nThe Company is reaffirming its previously issued guidance for Adjusted2Gross Margin of approximately 35% and Adjusted2SG&A of approximately 31%.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"tweetType":1,"viewCount":7,"authorTweetTopStatus":1,"verified":2,"comments":[],"imageCount":0,"langContent":"EN","totalScore":0}],"lives":[]}