Report
Jaime Katz
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Bed Bath margin performance compresses as spending on improvement and acquisitions continue ..

Third-quarter earnings tracked short of our full-year pace at no-moat Bed Bath and Beyond, due to ongoing pressure on both the gross margin and selling, general, and administrative cost lines. While gross margins tracked 40 basis points worse than our model implied, at 37% (from 37.8% last year), the SG&A ratio rose 90 basis points, which led to the majority of the shortfall in our model. We had anticipated that ongoing spending would keep the ratio inflated as Bed Bath invested in IT to imp...
Underlying
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc.

Bed, Bath & Beyond is an omnichannel retailer providing products, services and solutions for the home and life events. The company operates an ecommerce platform consisting of various websites and applications, including bedbathandbeyond.com, bedbathandbeyond.ca, harmondiscount.com, and facevalues.com. The company sells an assortment of domestics merchandise and home furnishings. Domestics merchandise includes categories such as bed linens and related items, bath items and kitchen textiles. Home furnishings include categories such as kitchen and tabletop items, fine tabletop, basic housewares, general home furnishings (including furniture and wall decor), consumables and certain juvenile products.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

Analysts
Jaime Katz

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