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Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ:BBBY) announced first-quarter 2017 earnings Thursday after-hours, and it’s safe to say it did not make the company any sell-side friends.
BTIG analyst Alan Rifkin is one of those with little positivity for the company, he reiterated a Neutral rating and no price target.
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“Bed Bath materially missed out estimates,” said Rifkin. The company reported an EPS of $0.53 versus Rifkin’s $0.69 estimate, and same-store sales were negative 2 percent versus an estimated positive 0.5 percent.
Management cited a $0.05 downward tax impact, but Rifkin pointed out that this was accounted for both in their guidance and his estimates.
Bed Bath & Beyond’s Q1 comps were the worst since the Great Recession.
The analyst was also unsettled by the fact that management did not revise its fiscal year modeling assumptions.
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The result of this is a significant reduction in Rifkin’s 2017 and 2018 EPS and comp estimates, which were already below consensus.
- 2017 EPS: from $4.30 to $3.95.
- 2017 EPS: from $4.35 to $4.00.
- 2017/2018 Comps: both from 0.5 percent growth to zero growth.
One positive though, if counterintuitive, is the potential for an acceleration in store closures so long as long-term returns are insufficient. The company could end up to 100 leases each year.
At last check, shares of Bed Bath & Beyond were down 11.63 percent at $29.82.
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