Newell Brands Drops Sharply on Sales Miss and Downbeat Outlook
Newell Brands announces mixed fourth-quarter results and issues a downbeat outlook.
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The consumer goods multinational, owner of brands like Rubbermaid, Sharpie and Graco baby products, reported fourth-quarter net income fell to $208.1 million, or 46 cents a share. Analysts were expecting EPS of 41 cents. A year earlier the company earned $1.7 billion, or $3.38 a share, when Newell Brands benefited from a $1.5 billion tax-reform adjustment. Adjusted earnings were 71 cents a share, above forecasts of 67 cents.
Fourth-quarter net sales disappointed, falling 6% to $2.34 billion, missing analysts' consensus of $2.43 billion,
according to Refinitiv. This compares $2.5 billion in the same period the prior year. Core sales from continuing operations fell 1.2% from the prior year period, the
company said.
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For the full year ended Dec. 31, 2018, net sales fell by 9.6% to $8.6 billion from $9.6 billion in 2017. Core sales fell 5.2%. The company had a net loss for 2018 of $6.9 billion compared with net income of $2.7 billion the prior year.
The company said it had an operating loss in 2018 of $7.8 billion compared with operating income of $386 million in 2017.
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