Ulta Beauty On Thursday, a number of internally misleading a number, rising competition and “consumer uncertainty” gave a weak leader for the year before navigating.
In January, the retailer, who was determined as a new CEO of Kecia Steelman, said that the comparable sales will increase in this regard to a straight or 1% in 2025.
According to LSEG, it is expected that the full annual earnings will be between $ 22.50 and 22.90.
Ulta is the latest company that predicts a rocky year ahead. Uncertain consumer expenditures, retail sales, as well as a number of 2025 companies navigate a number of special problems and meetings. The correction of these issues will cost the money that is the reason why earnings will be lower than the Wall Street of the year.
“I shared our plan to prepare investments in an important guest need to improve our competitiveness and re-accelerate the long-term share,” said analysts. “These investments will put pressure on profitability in 2025, but we believe that the competition is critical to drive long-term growth in an innovative category.”
Shares increased by 6% in extended trade.
What was the retail seller in the Fiscal fourth quarter in the Fiscal fourth quarter, according to the survey of analysts by LSEG?
- Earnings on a share: $ 8.46 $ 7.12 expected
- Income: $ 3.49 Billion, $ 3.46 billion is expected
The company’s $ 394 million or $ 394 million or a share of $ 394 million or $ 8.46 per share or $ 8.46 per share or $ 8.46 per share or $ 8.46 per share or $ 8.46 per share or $ 393 million per share.
Sales fell from about $ 3.55 billion to $ 3.55 billion. Like other retailers, Ulta has benefited from a while before a while before a negative approach.
Beauty has been one of the brightest spots in retail in the last few years, but was left behind in Ulta due to a number of self-shot problems. As the company’s work is growing, it became more complex and budded as the new execution options in the store, shop, the same day delivery and ship purchases and ships.
“As a result, our presentation and guest experience in the store are not as strong as we want today,” said Steelman. “These opportunities in the control are good.”
In January, Ulta, long-term CEO Dave Kimbell announced that retailers were replaced by Steelman. The experience of practice as transactions is good to solve some execution issues with Subsba, ULTA.
During the first winning call of CEO, Steelman was doing Ulta correctly and what he was wrong. According to him, the company will try to reset next year and return the market share.
“The competitive environment in beauty has never been more intense,” said Steelman. “For the first time, we lost the market share in the category of beauty in 2024.”
Sale compared to Ulta’s holiday quarter, increased by 0.8% to 3.5% expected to increase, according to Streetaccount. Customers spent more in a quarter, resulting in an average of 3% increase in average, but fewer recipients came to Ulta’s stores to buy beauty products. Operations in the neighborhood decreased 1.4%.
Some of this, as a large number of companies expanded to beauty. It does not only compete with Rival Sephora but also like mass retailers Macy’s, Diamatic and Amazon Beauty has created a foundation stone of their strategies and expanded all of the choices of makeup and skin care.
Last year, the Ulta refrigerator warned about the beauty market, but companies Elf beauty and Strangeness I did not see similar speakers and the sales of beauty remained strong in retailers such as Macy and Target.
Meanwhile, Ulta focused on increasing profitability. In the quarter, he was able to earn a profit with less sales week.
