And I think the prioritization and the continued talking about the profitability and what they can do, at least in this immediate term to pull some of those levers, that is certainly being listened to by the investor community right now. So, there was a lot of bad that was within this report, but it's perhaps not as bad as it could have been. So retail, used unit sales decline 12 and 1/2, 12.6% in the fourth quarter. But in this report, I mean, net revenues, down 25%. Here today, though, you're seeing it up by about 9% here. Of course, Carvana was Yahoo Finance's Laggard of the Year last year, the worst performer there, and ultimately has seen a bit of a bounce but a bounce off of some pretty dismal activity that we saw during 2022. We were taking a look at some of the industry competitors. You heard from Bill Nash, the president and chief executive officer, saying that they tried to further improve the most customer centric omnichannel experience in the industry, an industry that certainly has been battered. That was actually down versus last year by about 22 and 1/2% and then additionally talking about the deliberate steps to really prioritize profitability. They bought 262,000 vehicles from consumers and dealers. They talked about how much of the vehicles they're continuing to buy. Yeah, they did talk about the vehicle affordability. However, in the earnings release, they highlighted vehicle affordability as an issue, Brad. The company did say the average retail selling price of a used car fell by 9.3%. A couple of interesting things here- the magnitude of the beat, pretty impressive here- $0.44 a share versus the $0.20 estimated. It is planning new store growth to five locations. The company did reiterate its long term financial targets.
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