PYMNTS

APRIL 15, 2020

Department of Commerce released its retail sales results for March, showing record-setting declines due to changes in consumer behavior and the COVID-19 lockdown. Overall sales fell 8.7 With some analysts estimating a 4 to 24 percent drop the number was surprisingly low. percent from March, the biggest decline since 1992.

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Centage

DECEMBER 1, 2021

If your board asked you to run new numbers based on fresh assumptions, it took you days or weeks to create a new set of reports. But times have changed – which is why financial forecasting is more important than your annual budget. More than half (57%) are producing P&L forecasts more often than monthly.

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Jedox Finance

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A high-quality business forecast delivers far more than just numbers. Finance professionals regularly try to look in their crystal ball with forecasts and enable the company to have seamless, solid planning. For this to succeed, your forecast must be of high quality. Though other forecasting strategies are also possible.)

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the face of rapidly changing, unstable market conditions, traditional annual budgeting and forecasting processes have become outdated. Making rigid assumptions months ahead of time can often lead to worthless forecasts, as things can turn upside down so quickly. What is a rolling forecast?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In the face of rapidly changing, unstable market conditions, traditional annual budgeting and forecasting processes have become outdated. Making rigid assumptions months ahead of time can often lead to worthless forecasts, as things can turn upside down so quickly. What is a rolling forecast?

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PYMNTS

JUNE 24, 2020

While web users have harnessed eCommerce in numbers that haven’t been seen before amid the COVID-19 heath crisis, eMarketer forecasts the worldwide retail online shopping sales will slow down to a 16.5 The firm forecasts an overall $3.914 trillion in online shopping sales in 2020 per an announcement.

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Jedox Finance

JUNE 24, 2021

This also affects the go-to-market processes in particular for the marketing and sales functions. A company’s web presence, which is usually designed by marketing, is becoming an increasingly important component in the sales process. Where marketing and sales converge. The evolution of marketing data.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Recent years have shown there’s usually a surge in purchases and shopper traffic on what is being called “Super Saturday,” and sales on that day have been shown to be similar to Black Friday, which is traditionally the start of the holiday shopping season. billion in sales. Black Friday saw around $31.5

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PYMNTS

MAY 15, 2020

The experts were expecting a weak retail sales report when the numbers hit the wires earlier today (May 15) – but even in an environment of diminished expectations, the number reported by the Census Bureau was a disappointment. percent economists forecasted before the release, and double the record of the 8.3

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2018

KGI Securities Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reduced his lifetime sales forecast for the new iPhone X from 80 million to 62 million phones. In his analysis, Kuo cited weak sales in China. iPhone sales for the month ending Dec. 3, while older models represented the remaining sales.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 9, 2020

Coresight Research , a global research company, said the record number of closures is expected to exceed the more than 9,300 locations shuttered in 2019, CNBC reported. The latest numbers from the New York-based research group exceeds its earlier forecast of 15,000 retail closings this year.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

retail sales rose 0.3 billion, missing forecasts but still up for the sixth consecutive month, according to the monthly U.S. Despite the pandemic’s negative effect on the economy, 2020 retail sales in October were 5.7 Despite the pandemic’s negative effect on the economy, 2020 retail sales in October were 5.7 percent. .

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 1, 2023

The hosts also discuss the role of finance in enabling sales, the challenges faced by sales teams, and the importance of financial discipline and visibility in a company’s financials, regardless of market conditions. One, yeah, definitely finance helping with sales and sales data, in sales compensation.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Net sales rose 3.35 billion and Global same-store sales rose 7%. Twilio — Twilio’s stock plunged nearly 36%, a day after the company issued a weaker-than-expected sales forecast. Block — Shares jumped 10% after the mobile payments company surpassed profit and sales expectations in its third-quarter results.

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CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

According to Dow Jones, the consensus forecast calls for 187,000 new nonfarm jobs in January, down from 223,000 that were created in December. But economists say it’s not clear how much of that will show up in the labor numbers. A higher-than-expected number might be viewed as just an outlier, he added.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Analysts polled by Refinitiv were forecasting earnings of 23 cents per share on revenue of $4.49 PayPal reported earnings that surpassed profit and sales expectations. Coinbase — Shares popped 4% in extended trading after reporting better-than-expected user numbers , even as Coinbase reported a miss on profit and sales expectations.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Yes, the numbers were there – but Cyber Monday is just a speed bump in the digital-first economy’s headlong rush to dominate retail in 2020. By the numbers, Cyber Monday was not as big a success as predicted. percent year over year, short of Adobe’s original forecast of $12.7 It originally estimated online sales of $189 billion.

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PYMNTS

MAY 20, 2020

But like Walmart, which reported strong numbers on Tuesday, Target also paid a high price for its spiking growth. Operating expenses increased sharply and sales of higher-margin items like apparel declined. billion analysts forecast and rising 11.3 Comparable sales also saw a big bounce, up 10.8 Revenue clocked in at $19.62

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2021

Despite the ongoing pandemic, retail holiday sales were 8.3 Last year, holiday sales jumped 4 percent year over year. The NRF said 2020 retail sales from Nov. billion, surpassing its forecast of sales between $755.3 A surge in online shopping also contributed to the sales boost. 31 were $789.4 percent to 5.2

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2019

With the growth of eCommerce sales, the number of products consumers are sending back to retailers is on the rise. A study by commercial real estate services company CBRE, in conjunction with Optoro, found that shoppers are forecasted to return $41.6 billion in products purchased online this November and December.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 10, 2020

As a result of the COVID-19 health crisis, Starbucks anticipates a loss of for its fiscal third quarter as it forecasts a loss in revenue of up to $3.2 same-store sales will decrease between 10 percent and 20 percent for the complete fiscal year. In May, same-store sales in the U.S. billion, CNBC reported.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As the numbers hit the wires, sluggish sales figures and stumbling same-store sales growth hit Macy’s figures with a one-two punch, and sent its stock price spiraling as regular trading opened on the markets this morning. billion in net sales. That marked the first same-store sales decline Macy’s has seen in two years.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

"The drawdown comes as the tech giant reported iPhone sales that missed analysts’ estimates and gave no forecast for the holiday quarter," Bloomberg reported Friday. The release of the new iPhone 12 later than usual in Apple's product-refresh cycle — it went on sale Oct. Sales in China also were off year over year.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

China saw retail sales increase last month for the first time since the COVID-19 outbreak, another sign of the country’s wider recovery. The latest numbers were a surprise as economists had predicted retail sales would be flat. The latest numbers were a surprise as economists had predicted retail sales would be flat.

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Centage

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you think that once you’ve forecast your budget for the year , you’re all set — forecast again. Partially, this is because of the way business budgeting and forecasting has been done in the past. This manual process leads to broken formulas and incorrect data — not to mention regularly recurring forecast errors.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 7, 2021

7) that digital sales nearly doubled during the company’s fiscal third quarter even as overall sales fell 5 percent and the company lost more than $75 million. “We The company reported that comparable digital sales for Q3, which ended Nov. Bed Bath & Beyond reported Thursday (Jan. All in, Bed Bath & Beyond lost $75.4

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 15, 2020

Macy’s , Kohl’s , JCPenney, Five Below, L Brands and Bed, Bath & Beyond all made weaker-than-expected holiday sales in the final quarter of 2019 – and their stock prices have been hit hard for the failure. The holiday quarter numbers are consistent with recent results.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 1, 2019

In an effort to transition to an eCommerce sales platform, Tesla announced its move to an online-only sales model. Tesla, in fact, forecasts that the move could let the company lower vehicle prices by about 6 percent. However, Tesla recently made changes to the company’s program for deposits.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The index of pending home sales increased 1.2 The NAR Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), which measures the number of purchase contracts signed, rose to 108.5. percent and pending home sales rose nationwide in all regions compared to 2018. percent and pending home sales rose nationwide in all regions compared to 2018.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I tracked the annual retail sales forecast as a twofold exercise: Avoid forecasts, as they are mostly wrong, and tend to lose investors’ money. That would mean retail gangs steal nearly 25% of total sales in San Francisco and Oakland combined, which amounted to around $15.5 billion to organized retail crime each year.

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Centage

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The traditional budgeting and forecasting planning processes can be long and painful. Any number of issues can arise that render forecasts or the line items on an annual budget quickly outdated. Driver-based forecasting and business planning identifies key business drivers and creates models around them.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 31, 2020

Reuters reported on Monday (March 30) that as consumer confidence declines and dealerships have been forced to close in an effort to help thwart the pandemic, new vehicle sales likely had a disastrous showing for the month of March, a trend that will continue into April.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 3, 2020

With visitor arrivals to Hong Kong dramatically falling, the financial center’s retail sales registered a double-digit drop in November. Retail sales by value retreated 23.6 The news comes as holiday sales rose at Tiffany & Co. despite challenges in Hong Kong and Japan.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 21, 2023

While Netflix missed earnings expectations, it added more subscribers than analysts were forecasting. Nordstrom — Shares of the retailer fell 7% in premarket trading after Nordstrom announced that its holiday sales fell 3.5% Macy’s — Retail stocks such as Macy’s declined following disappointing holiday sales from Nordstrom.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 4, 2020

vehicle sales seem startling, but industry experts say it doesn’t accurately reflect the industry’s true state. car sales is still intact. Surge in Online Sales and Financing. For instance, Mercedes Benz has said it expects 25 percent of its passenger car sales to be made online by 2025. Love to Drive.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Are media buyers burning through budgets at the last minute just to preserve them for a better shot next year, or will the ad rebound collectively help recoup 2020 losses with holiday sales? did strong Q3 numbers, with PYMNTS reporting that “Alphabet said search and other advertising revenues rose 6 percent year over year to $26.3

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Economists forecast the unemployment rate was steady at 3.7%, and average wage growth slowed to 0.3% Economists expect the Fed’s tighter money policy will ultimately result in negative monthly payroll numbers, but not yet. IT continues to be the leader, and we see accounting and finance is above 2021 numbers. in October.

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