Lululemon beat Wall Street expectations for fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue, but issued 2025 guidance that disappointed analysts.
Lululemon beat Wall Street expectations for fiscal fourth-quarter earnings and revenue, but issued 2025 guidance that disappointed analysts.
Lululemon Athletica and Abercrombie & Fitch raised their current-quarter sales targets on Monday, helped by demand for heavily discounted apparel during the holiday season, even as steep promotions took a bite out of some retailers’ margins.
Lululemon facing its slowest quarterly growth in more than four years, will have to deal with Wall Street questions on whether it has made significant strides toward fast-tracking trendier styles to its stores to better compete with athleisure upstarts.
The company now expects full-year net revenue to be between $10.38 billion and $10.48 billion, down from a previous range of between $10.7 billion and $10.8 billion. Lululemon anticipates earnings per share will be in a range of $13.95 to $14.15, down from previous guidance of $14.27 to $14.47.
Lululemon Athletica posted a strong quarter driven by growth across international markets, alleviating some concerns that demand for its hundred-dollar leggings was plateauing.
Lululemon athletica on Tuesday said it was implementing an new integrated design structure and announced the departure of Chief Product Officer Sun Choe. The apparel company said Choe resigned to pursue another opportunity and will leave the company later this month. Lululemon also said it doesn’t plan to replace the chief product officer role.
Lululemon Athletica Inc.’s stock rallied more than 5% in the after-hours session Friday after S&P Dow Jones Indices said the stock will join the S&P 500 index next week.
Peloton and Lululemon announced a five-year strategic partnership.
Lululemon raised its full-year guidance Thursday after reporting an 18% jump in both sales and profit for its fiscal second quarter, boosted by a 61% revenue spike in China.
Lululemon reported earnings that beat Wall Street’s estimates on the top and bottom lines Thursday and raised its full-year guidance, bolstered by improvements in China and freight costs.