BJ’s Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:BJ) shares are trading higher in the premarket session on Thursday.
The company reported third-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.18, beating the street view of 91 cents. Quarterly revenues of $5.10 billion were in line with the analyst consensus.
Comparable club sales rose 1.5% year-over-year, with a 3.8% increase excluding gasoline. Digitally enabled comparable sales growth was 30.0%, reflecting two-year stacked comp growth of 47.0%.
Membership fees grew 8.4% to $115 million. Adjusted EBITDA gained by 13.5% to $308.292 million.
The company estimates that an increase in sales, temporarily driven by a port strike and hurricanes, had a favorable impact of slightly less than one percentage point on its ...