Aritzia Inc T.ATZ

Q1 earnings out

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https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/aritzia-reports-first-quarter-fiscal-2025-financial-results-884963544.html

Net Revenues up 7.8%
US Sales up 13.0%
Gross Margins up from 38.9% to 44.0%
Inventory down from $485 million to $397 million

Net income is down, but that is because last year, there was a one-time $15 million profit realization.

A great quarter considering consumers are tighetning.

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The market seems to think it was a fantastic quarter.  Tough to disagree.  This stock always has serious volatility at earnings time, hopefully this holds.

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There is/was short interest for a while as well as speculative buying, which has led to volatility. I mean you had people like Duster claiming to visit empty stores with his wife (lol). Being that it is consumer sales that they rely on, the fact that in this economy, they were not only able to increase sales, but also increase margins show they have staying power.Their US expansion has just