Lulu Tanks on Earnings

Lululemon, (the store that sells your girlfriend those yoga pants) is down more than 20% today following a mixed earnings report and soft quarter outlook. An article on Zacks goes further into detail regarding the results:

the company’s comps trends have remained weak so far in first-quarter fiscal 2017 on account of soft traffic in stores and lower conversion on the eCommerce site. This led the company to provide bleak outlook for the fiscal first quarter.

Lululemon posted adjusted earnings of $1.00 per share, which lagged the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.01 but leaped 17.6% from 85 cents earned in the year-ago quarter. Also, the bottom line was within the company’s guidance range of 96 cents to $1.01 per share

Was a 22% drop warranted, or is this an overreaction to the news?

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Don't know about LULU specifically, but I am staying away from retail stocks right now. There are quite a few that I looked at and appear to be bargains, and I understand the "buy when everyone is fearful" adage, but man I cannot bring myself to step in given the headwinds retail is facing in general.

"Some things are believed because they are demonstrably true. But many other things are believed simply because they have been asserted repeatedly—and repetition has been accepted as a substitute for evidence." - Thomas Sowell
 

I have been thinking the same on the sector. I have consistently been drawn to sectors when they are collapsing, but retail just seems to be stuck in a spiral downward. I was amazed at how bad Under Armour has been fairing especially in an economy that seems to be doing well. Does anyone have good insight on what is going on in the retail space?

 

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