{"id":29230,"date":"2012-05-26T13:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=29230"},"modified":"2012-05-26T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T17:52:36","slug":"talbots-reports-unexpected-profit-citing-improved-margins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/05\/26\/talbots-reports-unexpected-profit-citing-improved-margins\/","title":{"rendered":"Talbots Reports Unexpected Profit, Citing Improved Margins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"542\" height=\"304\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v8fd16bf380083cdf0f1b28f5ac3a452e8e6cb8eb&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v8fd16bf380083cdf0f1b28f5ac3a452e8e6cb8eb&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Talbots (NYSE:TLB) reported Q1 EPS of $0.09, exceeding estimates for a loss of $0.02 a share. Revenues in the quarter came in at $275.9 million, also beating estimates of $272.6 million, citing improved merchandise margin. The company reported Q1 comp sales slipped 3.8% and still expects to close 110 sites in total as it has already closed 90 locations since March. In a separate report, Talbot said it didn&#8217;t reach a pact for the Sycamore merger before expiration.Despite the excellent earnings, investors are focusing on the company&#8217;s weakness on sales. Currently, Talbots is down over 34% to $1.68 in early trading.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/05\/26\/1_t46n681k_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/05\/26\/1_t46n681k_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talbots (NYSE:TLB) reported Q1 EPS of $0.09, exceeding estimates for a loss of $0.02 a share. Revenues in the quarter came in at $275.9 million, also beating estimates of $272.6 million, citing improved merchandise margin. The company reported Q1 comp sales slipped 3.8% and still expects to close 110 sites in total as it has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/05\/26\/talbots-reports-unexpected-profit-citing-improved-margins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Talbots Reports Unexpected Profit, Citing Improved Margins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}