Key Takeaways
- Five Below exceeded first-quarter profit and sales forecasts on a rise in transactions and strong performances from new stores.
- The discount retailer also raised its 2025 outlook.
- Five Below opened 55 new locations in Q1, and expects to add 30 this quarter.
Five Below (FIVE) shares jumped 7% Thursday, a day after the discount retailer posted better-than-expected results and boosted its full-year outlook on an increase in transactions and sales at new locations.
The company that advertises it sells merchandise at $5 or less reported first-quarter adjusted 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:earnings per share (EPS) of $0.86 on revenue that soared nearly 20% year-over-year to $970.5 million, as well as 澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果体彩网:same-store sales that grew 7%. All toppedꦓ Visible Alpha consensus estimates.
CEO Winnie Park said Five Below saw "broad-based strength across the majority of our merchandising worlds." Park noted the same-store sales increase was "transaction-driven," and new stores put in a "strong performance." The company added 55 outlets in the period, and plans to open 30 more in the current quarter.
Five Below expects full-year adjusted EPS of $4.25 to $4.72 compared with its previous outlook of $4.10 to $4.72, and sales of $4.33 billion to $4.42 billion, up from its earlier projection of $4.21 billion to $4.33 billion.
Shares of Five Below traded at their highest level in more than a year.
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