Ulta Beauty (ULTA) Q2 2021 Earnings Call Transcript
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Ulta Beauty (NASDAQ:ULTA)
Q2 2021 Earnings Call
Aug 25, 2021, 4:30 p.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks
  • Questions and Answers
  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:

Operator

Good afternoon, and welcome to Ulta Beauty’s conference call to discuss results for the second quarter of fiscal 2021. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A brief question-and-answer session will follow the formal presentation. [Operator instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.

It is now my pleasure to introduce Ms. Kiley Rawlins, vice president of investor relations. Ms. Rawlins, please proceed.

Kiley RawlinsVice President of Investor Relations

Thank you, Paul. Good afternoon, everyone. Hosting our call today are Dave Kimbell, chief executive officer; and Scott Settersten, chief financial officer. Kecia Steelman, chief operating officer, will join us for the Q&A session.

This afternoon, we released our financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2021. A copy of the press release is available in the Investor Relations section of our website. Before we begin, I’d like to remind you of the company’s Safe Harbor language. The statements contained in this conference call which are not historical facts may be deemed to constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

Actual or future results may differ materially from those projected in such statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties, all of which are described in the company’s filings with the SEC. We caution you

Why Target Earnings Were being Superior Information for Ulta Splendor

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reported fiscal next-quarter effects on Wednesday, and although that has not carried out a great deal to assist the inventory, it could be good news for its new cosmetics associate, Ulta Magnificence.

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(ULTA) introduced their partnership in November 2020. It is a store-inside-a-shop model that department outlets have adopted with elegance brands in the earlier, and properly-trodden ground for Focus on, as it is paired with other specialty makes like

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(LEVI). The initially Ulta shops in Concentrate on are rolling out this thirty day period, with the firms aiming for more than 100 areas to open by the stop of the 12 months.

In that feeling, what’s great for Target is superior for Ulta. And though investors might not have been thrilled with Target’s effects, there were promising tendencies in the quarter that bode very well for Ulta.

Website traffic to Target was larger in the quarter—and much more foot traffic will give extra individuals a likelihood to uncover the new Ulta shops—while normal investing was up on a two-year foundation. Concentrate on also expects same-retailer gross sales, which squeaked earlier estimates this quarter, to proceed to increase in advance of anticipations.

Despite the enormous leaps in on line sales in the calendar year-in the past interval, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, Goal nonetheless managed to notch a 10% achieve in digital sales. Ulta products will be accessible to purchase on Target’s website, and

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Ulta Magnificence is an American chain of beauty merchants, whose inventory cost rise considering that 2017 came owing to an 18% maximize in revenues from $5.88 billion in FY 2017 to $6.92 billion above the past 4 quarters (Ulta’s fiscal 12 months ends in January). Mixed with a 9% fall in the superb share depend, RPS (earnings for each share) jumped from $95.60 in FY 2017 to $124.10 on an LTM foundation.

Further more, Ulta’s P/S (price-to-income) ratio jumped from 2.1x in 2017 to 2.6x by 2020 stop, and has due to the fact risen marginally to 2.7x at the moment. We