服装营销商Gap 回购5亿美元股票
Apparel marketer Gap initiates $500mn share repurchase
The new $500 million stock repurchase program follows its previous $1 billion share repurchase program, which it initiated in November 2013.
Prior to the November announcement, Gap had increased its annual dividend per share by one-third, from $0.60 to $0.80, representing the second increase in fiscal year 2013.
“Through the end of the second quarter, we’re pleased to have distributed about $800 million in cash to shareholders through dividends and share repurchases,” said Sabrina Simmons, CFO at Gap Inc.
She added, “The additional authorization to repurchase stock underscores management and the board’s continued confidence in our long-term strategy.”
In the second fiscal quarter of 2014, Gap posted earnings per share increase of 17 percent, from a year earlier quarter.
Second fiscal quarter of 2014 diluted earnings per share stood at $0.75 compared with diluted earnings per share of $0.64 in the second fiscal quarter of 2013.
Gap said the second quarter of 2014 diluted earnings per share includes a benefit of about $0.05 from a gain on the sale of a building owned.
Excluding this benefit, the apparel retailers’ adjusted diluted earnings per share stood at $0.70.
Net sales for the second quarter of 2014 rose 3 percent to $3.98 billion, compared with $3.87 billion in the prior year quarter.
Gap Inc. reported fiscal year 2013 net sales of $16.1 billion and its products are sold in more than 90 countries through about 3,200 company-operated stores and 400 franchise stores.
译文如下：
服装营销商Gap 回购5亿美元股票
美国服装营销商——Gap公司表示,其董事会已经批准了一项新的5亿美元普通股股票的回购。
新的5亿美元的股票回购计划遵循此前2013年11月发起的10亿美元的股票回购计划。
在11月的公告宣布之前,Gap将其年度每股股息增加了三分之一,从0.60美元增加至0.80美元,这是2013财政年度的第二次增加。
“在第二季度结束的时候,我们很高兴通过股息和股票回购拥有约8亿美元的现金分发给股东,” Gap公司首席财务官塞布丽娜·西蒙斯说道。
她补充说,“额外的股票回购加强了管理层和董事会对我们长期战略的信心。”
在2014年第二财政季度,Gap每股收益较上年同期季度增长17%。
2014年第二财季稀释每股收益为0.75美元,相比之下, 2013年第二季度稀释每股收益为0.64美元。
Gap表示,2014年第二季度稀释每股收益包括约0.05美元的从建筑出售上获得的利润。
除去这部分利润,服装零售商调整后的稀释每股收益为0.70美元。
2014年第二季度净销售额增长3%至39.8亿美元,而前一年为38.7亿美元。
Gap公司公布2013财年净销售额为161亿美元,其产品在90多个国家大约3200个门店和400家特许经营店出售。
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