Bed Bath & Beyond stock sinks 17% after profit and sales miss, weak guidance

Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY, -2.93% shares sank 17.1% successful Thursday premarket trading aft the retailer reported fiscal second-quarter nett and income that missed expectations and gave guidance beneath Street consensus. Net nonaccomplishment totaled $73.2 million, oregon 72 cents per share, aft nett income of $217.9 million, oregon $1.75 per share, past year. Adjusted EPS of 4 cents was good beneath the FactSet statement for 52 cents. Sales of $1.985 cardinal was down from $2.688 cardinal successful 2020 and beneath the Factset statement for $2.059 billion. Comparable income fell 1%, which the institution attributed to a diminution successful August traffic. The FactSet statement was for a 1.5% increase. "As COVID-19 fears re-emerged amid the on-going Delta variant, we experienced a challenging environment," said Chief Executive Mark Tritton successful a statement, explaining the income and gross borderline unit the institution experienced. "This was peculiarly evident successful large, cardinal states specified arsenic Florida, Texas and California, which correspond a important information of our sales. Furthermore, unprecedented proviso concatenation challenges person been impacting the manufacture pervasively, and we saw steeper outgo ostentation escalating by month, particularly aboriginal successful the quarter, beyond the important increases that we had already anticipated." Bed Bath & Beyond is guiding for 3rd 4th income betwixt $1.96 cardinal to $2.0 billion, level comparable sales, and adjusted EPS successful the scope of $0.00 to $0.05. The FactSet statement is for income of $2.021 billion, comparable income maturation of 2% and EPS of 29 cents. Bed Bath & Beyond is forecasting afloat twelvemonth income of $8.1 cardinal to $8.3 billion, flat-to-slightly up comparable sales, and adjusted EPS successful the scope of $0.70 to $1.10. The FactSet statement is for income of $8.312 billion, comparable income maturation of 13.9% and EPS of $1.51. Bed Bath & Beyond shares person gained 25% for the twelvemonth to day portion the S&P 500 scale SPX, +0.16% is up 16.1% for the period.