Tesco Upgrades Again Forecasts !!11 Jan 2024 07:30
Tesco Again: Trading Results Great !! Jefferies Broker, better than they predicted on £2 Billions Cash Flow. Everything else bang on what they predicted. Tesco shares should go up hopefully. LONDON (Reuters) -Tesco, Britain's biggest retailer, on Thursday upgraded its profit outlook for the second time in four months as it reported a better-than-expected rise in underlying UK sales for the key Christmas trading period.
The supermarket group, which has a near 28% share of Britain's grocery market, said it now expected a year to end-February 2024 retail adjusted operating profit, its key profit figure, of 2.75 billion pounds ($3.5 billion) versus the 2.49 billion pounds made in 2022/23.
It was previously forecasting 2.6-2.7 billion pounds.
"Our continued investments across the full breadth of our customer offer have resulted in a stronger trading performance than anticipated," Tesco (LON:TSCO) said.
It said UK like-for-like sales rose 6.8% over the six weeks to Jan. 6 and were up 7.9% in its third quarter to Nov. 25, having been up 8.4% in the second quarter.