November 30th, 2006, filed by Brad Dorfman
Warm and wet weather dampened November same-store sales at many U.S. chains in a key period that includes the start of the holiday shopping season.
Following is a table of sales resuls reported by a number of retailers, along with analysts expectations:
TABLE-U.S. retailers’ same-store sales in November
Nov 30 (Reuters) - The following table lists select U.S. retail companies that have reported November sales at stores open at least a year, a key retail measure also known as same-store sales.
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 expressed in percentage change over the same period last year except number of estimates.
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Nov-06 |
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Nov-06 |
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Analysts’ |
same-store |
No. of |
same-store |
| Company |
Symbol |
estimates* |
sales(est)# |
Estimates |
sales (act)^ |
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| Wal-Mart## |
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– |
– |
- |
0.1 |
| Target |
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5 to 7 |
5.8 |
10 |
5.9 |
| Costco |
|
5 to 8 |
6.0 |
9 |
5 |
| BJ’s Wholesale |
|
1 to 3 |
1.6 |
7 |
0.6 |
| TJX Cos. |
|
2.5 to 6 |
4.1 |
7 |
3 |
| Dollar General** |
|
2 to 4 |
3.0 |
5 |
2.2 |
| Family Dollar |
|
2 to 3 |
2.6 |
5 |
2.5 |
| Ross Stores |
|
0 to 4 |
1.8 |
6 |
0 |
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| Kohl’s |
|
3 to 9 |
5.1 |
11 |
3.7 |
| JC Penney |
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2 to 8 |
4.0 |
9 |
1.4 |
| Federated |
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4 to 8 |
4.8 |
8 |
8.5 |
| Nordstrom |
|
2 to 10 |
5.7 |
12 |
5.4 |
| Saks |
|
5 to 12 |
6.7 |
6 |
7.2 |
| Dillard’s |
|
1 to 2 |
0.6 |
7 |
-3 |
| Bon-Ton Stores** |
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4 to -4 |
4.0 |
1 |
10.5 |
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| Gap |
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7 to -2 |
5.5 |
9 |
-8 |
| Limited |
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6 to 11 |
8.2 |
10 |
12 |
| Abercrombie |
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2 to 5 |
3.3 |
13 |
-3 |
| Hot Topic** |
|
9 to -3 |
6.1 |
9 |
4.3 |
| Chico’s FAS^^ |
|
2 to 2 |
0.4 |
11 |
0.4 |
| American Eagle |
|
7 to 23 |
14.7 |
14 |
14 |
| Aeropostale** |
|
0 to 5 |
2.2 |
9 |
1 |
| Pacific Sunwear |
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6 to -1 |
4.2 |
11 |
3.8 |
| Ann Taylor |
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5 to 1 |
1.7 |
9 |
4.3 |
| Gymboree |
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2 to 13 |
8.2 |
6 |
5 |
| Bebe |
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7 to 13 |
9.8 |
6 |
5.8 |
| Claire’s Stores |
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1 to 6 |
2.6 |
5 |
0 |
| Children’s Place |
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8 to 17 |
11.3 |
6 |
12 |
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| Pier 1 Imports |
|
18 to -4 |
12.2 |
5 |
15.3 |
| Sharper Image |
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22 to -17 |
19.0 |
3 |
-27 |
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