Performance Food Sales, Profit Rise on Higher Prices

Dow Jones
Aug 12
 

Performance Food logged higher sales and profit in the fiscal fourth quarter, as both costs and prices increased.

The food service and convenience-food company on Wednesday posted a profit of $162.3 million, or $1.03 a share, compared with $131.5 million, or 84 cents a share, a year earlier.

Stripping out certain one-time items, adjusted per-share earnings were $1.59, behind the $1.60 anticipated by analysts, according to FactSet.

Revenue rose 6.4% to $18.03 billion. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast revenue of $18.11 billion.

The sales growth was driven by an increase in its selling price per case as a result of inflation, as cost inflation rose 4.7%, Performance Food said.

Sales in its food service business, which supplies restaurants, rose 6.8%, while convenience revenue was up 5.7%. Higher prices in convenience were partially offset by more customers buying alternative nicotine products instead of cigarettes.

For the new fiscal year, Performance Food expects sales to be $72.5 billion to $73 billion, compared with the $72.78 billion that analysts are projecting.

The company is guiding for $17.9 billion to $18.1 billion in revenue during the current fiscal first quarter, while analysts are forecasting $18.04 billion.

 
 

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