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- Cédric Rossi
- Clément Genelot
Fashion: navigating a cautious summer
Based on recent market trends, the start of Q3 appears to be a continuation of the softness observed in May and June for the fashion industry, as prolonged macroeconomic and tariff-related uncertainty continues to weigh on consumer spending. This environment has prompted a wait-and-see approach amo
- Cédric Rossi
H&M: modest signs of improvement
While still showing a contraction YoY, Q2 margins improved sequentially versus Q1, lending more credibility to the company’s guidance for a positive inflexion point expected in H2 2025. However, H&M remains particularly sensitive to fluid external factors such as promotional activity, freight c
- Cédric Rossi
- Clément Genelot
Fashion: No sign of spring in second quarter
As we feared in our February sector update, tariffs took a toll on US consumer sentiment, prompting shoppers to become more cautious on discretionary spending. European optimism ticked up marginally as did spending intentions, leading to soft market trends in May-June. In view of constrained pricin
- Cédric Rossi
Inditex: normalised, not neutralised (cancel & replace)
Whereas Q1 results broadly met expectations, current trading was again underwhelming, with sales from 1st May to 9th June up 6% FX-n (vs. CSSe c.+7%), reflecting volatile demand and a tough comp base. We have trimmed our FY25 estimates by 3% to account for the ongoing normalisation phase and a more
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
Fashion disruption: will de minimis reforms trigger "de maximis" marke...
In addition to the implementation of reciprocal tariffs, the Trump administration is also closing the Chinese de minimis loophole from 1st May onwards, which will considerably disrupt the business model of major platforms like Shein and Temu in the US. Although this new market paradigm could be wel
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
- Loic Morvan
On the shelves now: Consumer Weekly #65
In this Consumer Weekly newsletter, we provide a brief overview of the key factors affecting our Consumer coverage, from Luxury & Consumer goods to Retail & E-commerce and Food & Ingredients. This week, we look at the impacts of US tariffs and potential retaliation strategies by foreign
- Cedric Rossi
Sporting Goods: reciprocal tariffs, the last straw?
Trump's "reciprocal tariffs" plan announced on 2nd April now applies huge tariff rates to new countries like Vietnam and Indonesia, which are key in the sourcing of US footwear and apparel. Although apparel and footwear are already heavily taxed at an average of 14.6% and 12.3% respectively, compar
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
- Loic Morvan
On the shelves now: Consumer Weekly #64
In this Consumer Weekly newsletter, we provide a brief overview of the key factors affecting our Consumer coverage, from Luxury & Consumer goods to Retail & E-commerce and Food & Ingredients. This week, we look at accelerating trends in European corporate earnings relative to those in t
- Cedric Rossi
H&M: business model still fragile in an uncertain world
The mild reaction yesterday confirmed that investors had mixed feelings about the sharp 33% miss on Q1 EBIT and the scenario of gradual improvement throughout the year. Although management guided for a positive markdown impact in H2 2024, soft organic growth, rising inventory levels and volatile co
- Cedric Rossi
H&M: Soft Q1 sales momentum despite margin sacrifices
Arguably, with +2% FX-n in Q1 2025 H&M achieved two consecutive quarters of positive organic growth for the first time since Q4 2019-Q1 2020 (stripping out the atypical period of post Covid-related lockdowns until H1 2022), but it was fuelled by painful price reinvestments and marketing efforts
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
- Loic Morvan
On the shelves now: Consumer Weekly #62
In this Consumer Weekly newsletter, we provide a brief overview of the key factors affecting our Consumer coverage, from Luxury & Consumer goods to Retail & E-commerce and Food & Ingredients. This week, we look at how Trump's trade war is negatively impacting US consumer sentiment. Happ
- Cedric Rossi
Inditex: navigating temporary sales growth hiccups
Whereas the slowdown in current trading was clearly more abrupt than expected, we believe this hiccup is temporary, as shown by the rebound in the first week of March to +7%. The latter is more consistent with our scenario of normalising sales trends towards 7% FX-n growth over the FY25-27 period,
- Cedric Rossi
Inditex: sound FY24 results but current trading has decelerated
For the fourth year in a row, Inditex achieved double-digit FX-n sales growth with +10.5% in FY24 with EBIT margin improving by 70bps to a new record level of 19.6%. FY24 total dividend amounted to EUR1.68 and matched expectations. Note that Inditex's current trading only increased by 4% FX-n, part
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
- Loic Morvan
On the shelves now: Consumer Weekly #58
In this Consumer Weekly newsletter, we provide a brief overview of the key factors affecting our Consumer coverage, from Luxury & Consumer goods to Retail & E-commerce and Food & Ingredients. This week, we look at the drivers behdind the busy M&A activity in Beauty. Happy reading!
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
- Loic Morvan
On the shelves now: Consumer Weekly #57
In this Consumer Weekly newsletter, we provide a brief overview of the key factors affecting our Consumer coverage: Luxury goods, Cosmetics, Consumer goods and Retail & E-commerce. This week, we look at the Fed's dilemma between its "wait-and-see" stance and mitigating the potential inflationar
- Cedric Rossi
Fashion: stay covered to thrive in the uncertain fashion world
Trump's tariff tactics confirm that the fashion industry is in for another volatile and uncertain year in 2025. Relatively resilient market trends across Europe and the US mask the growing number of price-sensitive consumers, forcing fashion groups to choose between top-line growth and margin prote
- Cedric Rossi
H&M: calendar effect and focus on cost discipline in Q4
In its Q4 2024 (Sep-Nov), H&M incurred a calendar effect (i.e. Black Friday events more skewed towards H&M's Q1 FY25) which led to a 2% miss on sales expectations (SEK62,193m vs. CSSe at SEK63,476m). However, it also had a positive impact on Q4 GM, helped by a focus on full-price sales, whi
- Cedric Rossi
- Clement Genelot
- Loic Morvan
- Philippine Adam
On the shelves now: Consumer Weekly #52
In this Consumer Weekly newsletter, we provide a brief overview of the key factors affecting our Consumer coverage, from Luxury & Consumer goods to Retail & E-commerce and Food & Ingredients. For the last Consumer Weekly of 2024, we look at the normal inertia effect between improving US
- Cedric Rossi
Inditex not immune to temporary bumps
Unsurprisingly, the combination of demanding market expectations and softer Q3 numbers triggered some profit-taking moves after the stock's 41% YTD rally. As flagged in our comment yesterday, the Q3 miss was largely due to FX headwinds, but during the call management guided for a moderate impact in
- Cedric Rossi
Inditex Q3 2024 results: sales and EBIT miss, in-line current trading
This morning Inditex's Q3 results missed CSSe both on sales and EBIT, by 2% and 5% respectively. A more harmful FX headwind hampered the sales performance as ITX reached a 15th consecutive quarter of double-digit FX-n sales growth (+11%), while the EBIT miss was mainly caused by the GM erosion of 2
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