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Fashion United
28-07-2025
- Business
- Fashion United
Retail crime in England and Wales hits 20-year high
Shoplifting in England and Wales has surged to its highest level in over two decades, according to the latest figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). In the year to March 2025, police recorded over 530,000 shoplifting offences, a 20 percent increase on the previous year and the highest number since current recording methods began in 2003. The rise in shoplifting forms part of a broader uptick in personal theft. Theft-from-person offences also rose by 15 percent, reaching just over 151,000 cases. In contrast, burglary and vehicle theft saw declines of 8 percent, suggesting that theft-related crime is becoming more concentrated in retail and public environments. The British Retail Consortium (BRC) estimates that retail theft now costs the sector over 2.2 billion pounds annually. Beyond the financial impact, the increase has contributed to a surge in violence and abuse toward retail workers and delivery staff, with more than 2,000 incidents reported daily, reported Retail Sector. The rise in organised retail crime, including coordinated thefts by gangs, has further intensified the challenge for retailers. Tom Ironside, director of business and regulation at the BRC, welcomed steps taken by the UK government through its proposed Crime and Policing Bill, which aims to remove the 200 pounds threshold for prosecuting thefts, signalling a tougher stance on offences previously deemed "low-level." He urged policymakers to go further in extending legal protections to all frontline retail workers, echoing legislative measures already in place in Scotland, reported Retail Sector. While the Crime Survey for England and Wales, a broader measure of criminal trends, estimated 2.8 million theft incidents in the year, this represents little change from the previous year. However, the sharp rise in reported shoplifting suggests an intensifying pressure on high street retailers, particularly in the wake of the pandemic and amid ongoing economic headwinds.
Yahoo
26-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Dutch Bros (BROS) Outperforms Broader Market: What You Need to Know
Dutch Bros (BROS) closed the most recent trading day at $59.50, moving +1.78% from the previous trading session. This change outpaced the S&P 500's 0.4% gain on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow gained 0.47%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, added 0.24%. Shares of the drive-thru coffee chain operator and franchisor have depreciated by 13.34% over the course of the past month, underperforming the Retail-Wholesale sector's gain of 4.05%, and the S&P 500's gain of 4.61%. The investment community will be paying close attention to the earnings performance of Dutch Bros in its upcoming release. The company is slated to reveal its earnings on August 6, 2025. The company's upcoming EPS is projected at $0.18, signifying a 5.26% drop compared to the same quarter of the previous year. In the meantime, our current consensus estimate forecasts the revenue to be $401.5 million, indicating a 23.57% growth compared to the corresponding quarter of the prior year. Looking at the full year, the Zacks Consensus Estimates suggest analysts are expecting earnings of $0.59 per share and revenue of $1.58 billion. These totals would mark changes of +20.41% and +23.41%, respectively, from last year. It is also important to note the recent changes to analyst estimates for Dutch Bros. These revisions typically reflect the latest short-term business trends, which can change frequently. Consequently, upward revisions in estimates express analysts' positivity towards the business operations and its ability to generate profits. Based on our research, we believe these estimate revisions are directly related to near-term stock moves. To take advantage of this, we've established the Zacks Rank, an exclusive model that considers these estimated changes and delivers an operational rating system. The Zacks Rank system ranges from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell). It has a remarkable, outside-audited track record of success, with #1 stocks delivering an average annual return of +25% since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has shifted 2.52% downward. Dutch Bros is holding a Zacks Rank of #3 (Hold) right now. In the context of valuation, Dutch Bros is at present trading with a Forward P/E ratio of 98.61. This signifies a premium in comparison to the average Forward P/E of 20.91 for its industry. It is also worth noting that BROS currently has a PEG ratio of 2.82. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company's expected earnings growth rate into account. BROS's industry had an average PEG ratio of 2.6 as of yesterday's close. The Retail - Restaurants industry is part of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This industry, currently bearing a Zacks Industry Rank of 163, finds itself in the bottom 35% echelons of all 250+ industries. The Zacks Industry Rank assesses the vigor of our specific industry groups by computing the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks incorporated in the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1. To follow BROS in the coming trading sessions, be sure to utilize Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Dutch Bros Inc. (BROS) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Is Advance Auto Parts (AAP) Stock Outpacing Its Retail-Wholesale Peers This Year?
The Retail-Wholesale group has plenty of great stocks, but investors should always be looking for companies that are outperforming their peers. Has Advance Auto Parts (AAP) been one of those stocks this year? Let's take a closer look at the stock's year-to-date performance to find out. Advance Auto Parts is a member of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This group includes 204 individual stocks and currently holds a Zacks Sector Rank of #11. The Zacks Sector Rank gauges the strength of our 16 individual sector groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. The Zacks Rank is a proven system that emphasizes earnings estimates and estimate revisions, highlighting a variety of stocks that are displaying the right characteristics to beat the market over the next one to three months. Advance Auto Parts is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy). Over the past 90 days, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for AAP's full-year earnings has moved 19.5% higher. This shows that analyst sentiment has improved and the company's earnings outlook is stronger. According to our latest data, AAP has moved about 9.2% on a year-to-date basis. Meanwhile, stocks in the Retail-Wholesale group have gained about 5.2% on average. This means that Advance Auto Parts is outperforming the sector as a whole this year. Another Retail-Wholesale stock, which has outperformed the sector so far this year, is Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL). The stock has returned 26.5% year-to-date. In Cracker Barrel Old Country Store's case, the consensus EPS estimate for the current year increased 11.1% over the past three months. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy). Looking more specifically, Advance Auto Parts belongs to the Automotive - Retail and Wholesale - Parts industry, which includes 7 individual stocks and currently sits at #92 in the Zacks Industry Rank. On average, stocks in this group have gained 13.3% this year, meaning that AAP is slightly underperforming its industry in terms of year-to-date returns. On the other hand, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store belongs to the Retail - Restaurants industry. This 39-stock industry is currently ranked #92. The industry has moved +2.3% year to date. Advance Auto Parts and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store could continue their solid performance, so investors interested in Retail-Wholesale stocks should continue to pay close attention to these stocks. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Advance Auto Parts, Inc. (AAP) : Free Stock Analysis Report Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. (CBRL) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Yahoo
27-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Are Retail-Wholesale Stocks Lagging Maplebear Inc. (CART) This Year?
Investors interested in Retail-Wholesale stocks should always be looking to find the best-performing companies in the group. Has Maplebear (CART) been one of those stocks this year? Let's take a closer look at the stock's year-to-date performance to find out. Maplebear is one of 209 individual stocks in the Retail-Wholesale sector. Collectively, these companies sit at #11 in the Zacks Sector Rank. The Zacks Sector Rank includes 16 different groups and is listed in order from best to worst in terms of the average Zacks Rank of the individual companies within each of these sectors. The Zacks Rank is a proven model that highlights a variety of stocks with the right characteristics to outperform the market over the next one to three months. The system emphasizes earnings estimate revisions and favors companies with improving earnings outlooks. Maplebear is currently sporting a Zacks Rank of #2 (Buy). Within the past quarter, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for CART's full-year earnings has moved 7.7% higher. This means that analyst sentiment is stronger and the stock's earnings outlook is improving. Based on the latest available data, CART has gained about 4.6% so far this year. In comparison, Retail-Wholesale companies have returned an average of 2.1%. As we can see, Maplebear is performing better than its sector in the calendar year. Another stock in the Retail-Wholesale sector, Prosus N.V. Sponsored ADR (PROSY), has outperformed the sector so far this year. The stock's year-to-date return is 40.2%. In Prosus N.V. Sponsored ADR's case, the consensus EPS estimate for the current year increased 0.4% over the past three months. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). Breaking things down more, Maplebear is a member of the Internet - Commerce industry, which includes 38 individual companies and currently sits at #64 in the Zacks Industry Rank. On average, stocks in this group have gained 3.9% this year, meaning that CART is performing better in terms of year-to-date returns. Prosus N.V. Sponsored ADR is also part of the same industry. Investors with an interest in Retail-Wholesale stocks should continue to track Maplebear and Prosus N.V. Sponsored ADR. These stocks will be looking to continue their solid performance. Want the latest recommendations from Zacks Investment Research? Today, you can download 7 Best Stocks for the Next 30 Days. Click to get this free report Maplebear Inc. (CART) : Free Stock Analysis Report Prosus N.V. Sponsored ADR (PROSY) : Free Stock Analysis Report This article originally published on Zacks Investment Research ( Zacks Investment Research
Globe and Mail
29-05-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Analyzing the Current Earnings Outlook
Note: The following is an excerpt from this week's Earnings Trends report. You can access the full report that contains detailed historical actual and estimates for the current and following periods, please click here>>> Here are the key points: Total S&P 500 earnings for the June quarter are expected to be up +5.5% from the same period last year on +3.8% higher revenues, with a broader and greater pressure on estimates relative to other recent periods. Q2 earnings estimates for 15 of the 16 Zacks sectors are down since the quarter got underway, with Aerospace as the only sector whose estimates have moved higher. The Tech sector's estimates are down since the start of the period, but they have notably stabilized in recent weeks. The Q1 reporting cycle is now effectively behind us, with results from less than two dozen S&P 500 members still awaited at this stage. The Q1 earnings cycle has ended for 9 of the 16 Zacks sectors. Total Q1 earnings for the 477 S&P 500 members that have reported results are up +11.4% from the same period last year on +4.4% higher revenues, with 74.2% beating EPS estimates and 62.9% beating revenue estimates. An Underwhelming Retail Sector Earnings Performance Total Q1 earnings for the 28 of the 33 Retail sector companies in the S&P 500 index that have reported already are up +11.2% from the same period last year on +5.0% higher revenues, with 60.7% beating EPS estimates and 57.1% beating revenue estimates. Regular users of Zacks Research know that we have a stand-alone economic sector for the Retail sector, unlike the 'official' Standard & Poor's classification that places retailers in the Consumer Discretionary and Consumer Staples sectors. The Zacks Retail sector includes online vendors like Amazon AMZN, restaurant operators like McDonald's MCD, and conventional retailers like Walmart WMT and Target TGT. The comparison charts below show the Q1 EPS and revenue beats percentages for these companies in the context of what we had seen from the same group of 28 Retail sector companies in other recent periods. As you can see above, these Retail sector companies have been struggling to beat EPS and revenue estimates. The comparison charts below show this group's earnings and revenue growth rates in a historical context. The right-hand chart shows the group's earnings and revenue growth pace on an ex-Amazon basis. As you can see below, the group's +11.2% earnings growth drops to a decline of -5.0% once Amazon's substantial contribution is excluded from the numbers. If we look at Retail sector earnings on an annual basis, the expectation is for +4.1% earnings growth this year, which follows +22.7% growth in 2024. But as we saw with the Q1 earnings results, all of that growth is coming from Amazon, with this year's +4.1% earnings growth dropping to -0.6% and last year's +22.7% dropping to +1.8% once Amazon's contribution is excluded from the sector's numbers. A significant part of the sector's earnings challenge is a result of margin pressures, with the logistics associated with e-commerce sales forcing retailers to spend heavily on fulfillment and deliveries. You can see this in the chart below that shows the sector's net margins on an annual basis. The left-hand side showing the sector as a whole and the right-hand side showing the sector's margins excluding Amazon. As you can see above, Retail sector margins outside of Amazon have been on a downtrend since 2021, with this year's margins expected to serve as a bottom and start recovering going forward. Evolving Expectations for 2024 Q2 and Beyond The start of Q2 coincided with heightened tariff uncertainty following the punitive April 2 nd tariff announcements. While the onset of the announced levies was eventually delayed for three months, the issue has understandably weighed heavily on estimates for the current and coming quarters. The expectation at present is for Q2 earnings for the S&P 500 index to increase by +5.5% from the same period last year on +3.8% higher revenues. The chart below shows how Q2 earnings growth expectations have evolved since the start of the year. While it is not unusual for estimates to be adjusted lower, the magnitude and breadth of Q2 estimate cuts are greater than we have seen in the comparable periods of other recent quarters. Since the start of the quarter, estimates have come down for 15 of the 16 Zacks sectors, with the biggest declines for the Transportation, Autos, Energy, Construction, and Basic Materials sectors. The only sector experiencing favorable revisions in this period is Aerospace. Estimates for the two largest earnings contributors to the index – Tech & Finance – have also declined since the quarter began. Tech sector earnings are expected to be up +11.9% in Q2 on +9.9% higher revenues. While these earnings growth expectations are materially below where they stood at the start of April, the revisions trend appears to have notably stabilized lately, as we have been flagging in recent weeks. You can see this in the sector's revisions trend in the chart below. This stabilizing turn in the Tech sector's revisions trend can be seen in expectations for full-year 2025 as well, as the chart below shows. The above two charts show that estimates for the Tech sector have stabilized and are no longer under the type of downward pressure that we were experiencing earlier. The Tech sector is much more than just any another sector, as it alone accounts for almost a third of all S&P 500 earnings. The Earnings Big Picture The chart below shows expectations for 2025 Q1 in terms of what was achieved in the preceding four periods and what is currently expected for the next four quarters. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research The chart below shows the overall earnings picture for the S&P 500 index on an annual basis. While estimates for this year have been under pressure lately, there haven't been a lot of changes to estimates for the next two years at this stage. Stocks have recouped their tariff-centric losses, although the issue has only been deferred for now. While some of the more dire economic projections have eased lately, there is still plenty of macro uncertainty that will likely continue to weigh on earnings estimates in the days ahead, particularly as we gain visibility on the tariffs question. Only $1 to See All Zacks' Buys and Sells We're not kidding. 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