A Nike and Athleta store. Kylie Cooper | Reuters | Michael Brochstein | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Gap’s Athleta has tapped the head of Nike’s women’s business in North America as its next CEO, delivering a blow to the sneaker company as it tries to win back more female shoppers. Maggie Gauger,…
Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading Robinhood — The brokerage stock climbed 7% as traders speculated that it could soon be added to the S & P 500. A spot in the index was opened by Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s acquisition of Juniper Networks, which officially closed on Wednesday. Tesla — Shares of…
Nike stock soared 17% on Friday after the company said the worst of its struggles are behind it, following a better-than-feared fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report. Nike on Thursday reiterated it would take the biggest financial hit from its turnaround plan during the quarter, soothing investors who worried President Donald Trump‘s tariff hikes on key Nike…
Check out the companies making headlines in after-hours trading: Nike — The athletic retailer fell 2%. While Nike beat expectations on the top and bottom lines in the fiscal fourth quarter, the company said sales dropped 12% from the same period a year prior. CorMedix — The biopharmaceutical stock tumbled 10% after announcing a common…
Nike on Thursday said it expects sales and profit declines to moderate ahead, after the sneaker giant took its biggest financial hit yet from its turnaround plan during its fiscal fourth quarter. While Wall Street’s expectations were low coming into the report, Nike beat estimates on the top and bottom lines. Here’s how the company…
NikeSKIMS, a new brand from NIKE Inc. and SKIMS. Courtesy: NikeSKIMS Kim Kardashian fans are going to have to wait a little longer for the highly anticipated NikeSKIMS line. The activewear line will launch later this year instead of in the spring, like the companies had originally announced, because of production delays, according to a…
Lululemon beat Wall Street expectations for fiscal first-quarter earnings Thursday, but cut its full-year earnings guidance, citing a “dynamic macroenvironment.” As the company navigates tariffs and fears about a slowing U.S. economy, CEO Calvin McDonald said in a news release that “we intend to leverage our strong financial position and competitive advantages to play offense,…
What is the true cost of tariffs? It’s debatable — not only because of political biases, but also because it’s far from straightforward to calculate just how much of the levies consumers end up paying. Even so, it’s possible to estimate how much the price of common items could increase under President Donald Trump‘s various…
In 2013, Stephen Curry shocked the sneaker world by signing with then-upstart athletic company Under Armour over basketball powerhouse Nike. At the time, Nike controlled the vast majority of the NBA sneaker market. Under Armour was virtually unheard of in the basketball space. “We’re the underdog brand. We’re for the ones that were maybe born…
A person picks out clothing in a store as retailers compete to attract shoppers and try to maintain margins on Black Friday, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, at Woodbury Common Premium Outlets in Central Valley, New York, U.S. November 24, 2023. Vincent Alban | Reuters Consumers who hoped tariffs would not…
