Rite Aid stock jumps after surprise adjusted profit, store closures announced

Rite Aid Corp. RAD, +2.90% shares roseate 2.4% successful Tuesday premarket trading aft the pharmacy retailer reported a astonishment third-quarter adjusted nett and announced dozens of store closures. Net nonaccomplishment totaled $36.1 million, oregon 67 cents per share, aft nett income of $4.3 million, oregon 8 cents per share, past year. Adjusted EPS of 15 cents bushed the FactSet statement for a nonaccomplishment of 18 cents. Revenue of $6.229 cardinal was up from $6.117 cardinal but beneath the FactSet statement for $6.320 billion. "Despite challenges successful the labour market, our pharmacists and store teams were capable to conscionable the unprecedented volumes for COVID and flu immunizations, COVID investigating and different objective services," said Heyward Donigan, Rite Aid's main executive, successful a statement. Rite Aid announced a store reappraisal that volition effect successful 63 store closures and an yearly EBITDA payment of $25 million. Store closures began successful November. The institution volition proceed to reappraisal stores and expects further closures implicit the adjacent respective months. For fiscal 2022, Rite Aid is guiding for gross betwixt $24.4 cardinal and $24.7 cardinal and an adjusted nonaccomplishment per stock betwixt 4 cents and 49 cents. The FactSet statement is for gross of $25 cardinal and nonaccomplishment per stock of 77 cents. Rite Aid shares person slumped 21.7% successful 2021 portion the S&P 500 scale SPX, -1.14% has gained 21.6% for the period.