The number of tariff-hit products at the grocery store could soon spike as pre-tariff inventory runs out, CEO Per Bank said, which means prices for some items will go up too.
Any excuse for Loblaws to raise their prices even higher than they have been.
The devil is in the details. Read what the report does NOT say. If dividends increase, profit has gone up. The profit goes up, because the margins have gone up. Volume has not increased as much as the profit…
‘Absolute sales grew 4%’, but ‘Adjusted EPS grew by 9.3%’. The earnings per share (profit) grew twice the rate of absolute sales.
You assume wrong. Their profit margins have gone up. They are now making huge profits.
https://ca.investing.com/news/transcripts/earnings-call-transcript-loblaw-companies-q1-2025-sees-revenue-growth-dividend-boost-93CH-3984595
Can you show where you’re getting the information that margins have gone up? Only references to margins there indicate that they’ve been stable
The devil is in the details. Read what the report does NOT say. If dividends increase, profit has gone up. The profit goes up, because the margins have gone up. Volume has not increased as much as the profit…
‘Absolute sales grew 4%’, but ‘Adjusted EPS grew by 9.3%’. The earnings per share (profit) grew twice the rate of absolute sales.