Hibbett Sports Inc. (NASDAQ: HIBB) said on Friday that its profit in the fiscal fourth quarter came in better than expected. Its sales, however, fell shy of experts’ forecast in Q4.
Hibbett Sports shares closed the regular session roughly 1% up on Friday. The stock is now trading at a per-share price of £41.90 versus a much lower £33.12 per share at the start of the year 2021. Here’s what you need to know about how can you start trading on the stock market.
Hibbett Sports’ Q4 financial results versus analysts’ estimates
Hibbett Sports said that its net income in the quarter that concluded on 30th January printed at £17.26 million, which translates to £1.0 per share. In the same quarter last year, its net income was capped at a significantly lower £4.33 million, or 24.56 pence per share.
On an adjusted basis, the American holding company earned £1.01 per share in Q4. The sporting goods retailer valued its sales in the recent quarter at £272.18 million, which represents a 20.4% annualised growth.
According to FactSet, experts had forecast the company to report a higher £275.22 million of sales in the fourth quarter. Their estimate for adjusted per-share earnings stood at a lower 99 pence. In comparison, Hibbett’s net income had surged to £19.05 million in the prior quarter (Q3).
Same-store sales, the Birmingham-based company said, saw a 21.9% year over year increase in Q4. Brick and mortar comparable sales climbed 17.7% in the recent quarter, while eCommerce comparable sales jumped 44.78% and made up 17.1% of Hibbett’s total quarterly sales.
Chief Executive Mike Longo’s comments on Friday
CEO Mike Longo commented on the earnings report on Friday and said:
“The strong momentum that we experienced in our business in the second and third quarters continued in the fourth quarter.”
For fiscal 2021, Hibbett Sports forecasts its per-share earnings to fall in the range of £3.61 to £3.97. Analysts, on the other hand, are calling for £3.68 of EPS this year. In separate news from the U.S., Cisco Systems got an upgrade from JPMorgan on Friday from ‘neutral’ to ‘overweight, as IT spending recovered.
Hibbett Sports performed largely upbeat in the stock market last year with an annual gain of close to 75%. At the time of writing, the U.S. firm is valued at £692.28 million and has a price to earnings ratio of 17.77.
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