February storms blew in mixed results for U.S. retailers, with the likes of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Federated Department Stores Inc. reporting weak February sales, while upscale department stores like Nordstrom Inc. and Saks Inc. thrived.
The following are February same-store sales for select U.S. retailers, compared with what analysts expected.
The table includes the range of mean estimates* given by analysts polled by Reuters, the average of those means#, and the actual change in same-store sales reported by the companies^.
All figures are expressed as percentage changes over the same period last year except for “number of estimates.”
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| Wal-Mart** | 1.5 to 2.5 | 1.7 | 13 | 0.9 | |
| Target | 5 to 5.5 | 5.1 | 13 | 5.7 | |
| Costco | 3.6 to 7 | 5.0 | 13 | 4.0 | |
| BJ’s Wholesale~ | 0.5 to 3.3 | 1.7 | 11 | 3.0 | |
| TJX Cos. | 1 to 4 | 2.8 | 10 | 2.0 | |
| Dollar General | 3 to 5 | 4.4 | 8 | 4.9 | |
| Family Dollar~ | 0 to 2 | 0.3 | 6 | -0.5 | |
| Ross Stores | 1 to 3 | 1.9 | 6 | 1.0 | |
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| Kohl’s | 2 to 4 | 2.9 | 14 | 4.4 | |
| JC Penney | -2 to 2 | 0.5 | 11 | -0.2 | |
| Federated | 1 to 4 | 2.6 | 11 | 1.2 | |
| Nordstrom | 4.5 to 7 | 5.6 | 14 | 9.1 | |
| Saks~ | 2 to 10 | 6.8 | 9 | 24.7 | |
| Dillard’s | -3 to 1 | 1.0 | 7 | -9.0 | |
| Bon-Ton Stores | -2 to 3 | 0.5 | 2 | 14.6 | |
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| Gap | -7 to 0 | 4.5 | 14 | -4.0 | |
| Limited | 3 to 7 | 4.4 | 12 | 3.0 | |
| Abercrombie | -5 to 1 | 2.3 | 16 | -6.0 | |
| Hot Topic@ | 5.5 to -2 | 4.2 | 9 | -2.7 | |
| Chico’s FAS~~ | -3 to 1 | 1.5 | 10 | -4.3 | |
| American Eagle~ | 3 to 12 | 8.4 | 18 | 6.0 | |
| Aeropostale | 1 to 5 | 2.4 | 8 | 2.3 | |
| Pacific Sunwear | -5 to -2 | 3.6 | 13 | -5.7 | |
| Ann Taylor | -6 to -2.5 | 4.3 | 12 | -2.9 | |
| Gymboree | -2 to 5.5 | 1.8 | 6 | 1.0 | |
| Bebe | 0 to 3 | 2.4 | 8 | -2.2 | |
| Claire’s Stores | 0.5 to 4 | 2.3 | 8 | 1.0 | |
| Children’s Place | 2.5 to 7.3 | 5.0 | 5 | 5.0 | |
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| Pier 1 Imports | -7 to 1 | 5.0 | 6 | -8.4 | |
| Sharper Image | 17.5 to -16 | 16.8 | 3 | 24.0 | |
**For U.S. stores
~Reported on Wednesday.
~~Reported on Tuesday.
(Compiled by Dilipp S. Nag in Bangalore)
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