Clothing and footwear retailer Boot Barn (NYSE:BOOT) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow after market close. Here’s what you need to know.
Boot Barn beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $423.4 million, up 10.3% year on year. It was a strong quarter for the company, with an impressive beat of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a solid beat of analysts’ earnings estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Boot Barn’s revenue to grow 13.3% year on year to $424.4 million, improving from the 6.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.96 per share.
Heading into earnings, analysts covering the company have grown increasingly bullish with revenue estimates seeing 8 upward revisions over the last 30 days (we track 14 analysts). Boot Barn has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates three times over the last two years.
With Boot Barn being the first among its peers to report earnings this season, we don’t have anywhere else to look to get a hint at how this quarter will unravel for apparel and footwear retail stocks. However, the whole sector has faced a sell-off over the last month with stocks in Boot Barn’s peer group down 6.1% on average. Boot Barn is down 5.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $175.58 (compared to the current share price of $158).
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