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Retailer Canadian Tire's quarterly profit beats estimates

Published 2019-02-14, 06:26 a/m
Retailer Canadian Tire's quarterly profit beats estimates
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Feb 14 (Reuters) - Retailer Canadian Tire Corp Ltd CTCa.TO reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter profit on Thursday, helped by strong demand for toys and electronics.

Sales in Canadian Tire's retail unit, its biggest, rose 0.6 percent in the quarter, compared with 3.8 percent a year earlier.

The company, which is broadening its retail offerings by including private labels in addition to rolling out options like home delivery, is competing against global ecommerce giants like Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Walmart (NYSE:WMT) Inc to win back market share.

Canadian Tire's net income fell to C$278.2 million ($209.8 million), or C$3.99 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, from C$ 295.4 million, or C$4.10 per share, a year earlier. one-time items, the company earned C$4.78 per share, beating the average analyst estimate of C$4.69, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Revenue rose to C$4.13 billion from C$3.92 billion.

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