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Wall Street Breakfast

Nike warns on soft sales, increased promotions

Wall Street Breakfast

Seeking Alpha

Business News, News, Business, Investing

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Retail shocker: Nike (NKE) warns on soft sales, high promotional activity. (00:26) Cytokinetics (CYTK) soars amid report of Novartis (NVS), AstraZeneca (AZN) takeover interest. (02:35) Government opens investigation into frequent flyer programs. (03:12)

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0:00.0

Welcome to See King Alpha's Wall Street breakfast, where we cover the top news for investors every morning.

0:08.0

Good morning, it's finally Friday, December 22nd. I'm Julie Morgan. Nike and its peers are down pre-market following

0:16.2

the company's earnings report. Cyto-kinetics has some takeover interests and the

0:21.3

DOT is investigating frequent flyer programs.

0:25.0

Nike is down in pre-market action following its earnings report.

0:30.0

Margins and EPS top estimates but a soft quarter in North America dragged down the revenue

0:35.7

total to below the consensus expectation.

0:38.8

Nike's Q2 Gap EPS of $1.3,000,000, beat by $18. Revenue of $1.3, cents, beat by 18 cents.

0:44.0

Revenue of $13.39 billion missed by $40 million.

0:48.8

Revenue increased 4% year over year in greater China to 1.86 billion dollars but fell short of the

0:55.2

consensus expectation of 1.97 billion. The Asia Pacific and Latin America segment

1:01.6

saw a 13 percent increase in revenue during the quarter and the Europe segment

1:06.1

generated 2% revenue growth, but revenue fell 4% in North America.

1:11.7

Net income for the apparel giant was 1.6 billion dollars

1:15.4

versus 1.33 billion a year ago. Nike guided for fiscal Q3 reported revenue to be

1:22.0

slightly negative and for fiscal Q3 reported revenue to be slightly negative and for fiscal Q4 reported

1:25.2

revenue to be up at a low single digits rate which were both below the prior

1:29.9

expectation of analysts. Nike said the forecast reflects increased macro headwinds

1:35.6

particularly in China, Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as some supply

1:41.0

chain disruption.

1:42.6

The company also outlined its streamlining efforts that will include reducing management

1:47.4

layers, simplifying the product assortment, increasing automation and use of technology,

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