This morning. Well tell you about them. Mans best friend may want you to sell the company. Petsmart is explorining alternatives as pressure from an activist investor mounts. Target posting Second Quarter operating profits of 78 cents a share, just shy of lowered wall street expectations. The retailer posted flat Comp Store Sales in the u. S. And cutting full year Profit Guidance as fallout from a massive data breach continues to weigh on the company. Target says sales, though, trends at least, improve this month based on early backtoschool sales, jim. We have a number, though, a guidance number, i guess, is the key for the full Year Adjustment of 310 to 330 compared with guidance of 360 to 390, and they go into why thats beginning to be below. I mean, some has to do with early debt retirement. Yeah. Obviously, a good deal still pretax has to do with cost in the breach. First, i said, are you kidding me . You got are you kidding me . Total disarray there. You did through the least of it
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There was also the Lilly Pulitzer collection during this quarter. Brian cornell, the ceo, has been focused on areas of the store where they see more demand they are raising the lower end of the earnings forecast for the year two for 50 to 465, that is the range they are looking for. They have presumed buybacks. A target ive hundred 62 million their own stock in the First Quarter in that their first back since 2013. Erik it looks like this is a margin story because target samestore sales came in line of 2. 3 and revenue is in line with estimates. The bottom line is much better than analysts thought it would be. Julie some of that might have to do with the trajectory of target, if you will. Remember they had the big data breach that lost a lot of customers. Not just because of that but because of the target actor was waiting to some extent. The company is trying to get that back and they are looking at the data breach and they may not have to be discounting as much to get shoppers throug
The numbers will still be climbing. Well go through neighborhood by neighborhood forecast when im back in ten minutes. Right now lets find out how the traffic is moving on a Tuesday Morning after a holiday. Jessica boyington in the first alert traffic center. Jessica . Bill back to work on 95 looking live around the gerrard point bridge. The northbound lanes has a disabled van on the shoulder. Crew trying to get him out of the way. Just something to watch out for. Not backing up with any volume. 12 minutes northbound or southbound on 95 from woodhaven road up towards the vine street expressway. Still watching Strawberry Mansion and the closures around the building fires. 29th and diamond street closed. Now around the area were dealing with ridge and diamond, 29th and ridge and susquehanna and 29th. Take kelly drive to get by. Were watching an accident heading home from the shore in middletownship on the Garden State Park way taking out the center lane on 10. Vai. Thank you, jessica. Br