{"id":596519,"date":"2023-01-11T13:49:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/dow-jones-newswires-jd-sports-fashion-sees-2023-profit-at-the-higher-end-of-expectations-after-stronger-christmas-sales\/"},"modified":"2023-01-11T13:49:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T19:49:52","slug":"dow-jones-newswires-jd-sports-fashion-sees-2023-profit-at-the-higher-end-of-expectations-after-stronger-christmas-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/11\/dow-jones-newswires-jd-sports-fashion-sees-2023-profit-at-the-higher-end-of-expectations-after-stronger-christmas-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Dow Jones Newswires: JD Sports Fashion sees 2023 profit at the higher end of expectations after stronger Christmas sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article__body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"MW-BT-CO-20230111-700911\" role=\"document\">\n<p>JD Sports Fashion PLC said Wednesday that it expects to report fiscal 2023 adjusted pretax profit toward the top end of market expectations after it booked a strong performance during the Christmas period.<\/p>\n<p>The sports-and-fashion retailer<br \/>\n        <a data-track-hover=\"QuotePeek\" data-charting-symbol=\"STOCK\/UK\/XLON\/JD\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/investing\/stock\/JD?countryCode=UK&#038;mod=MW_story_quote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JD,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207007202\/delayed\">+6.99%<\/bg-quote><\/a><br \/>\n       said that for the fiscal year ending Jan. 28 it expects to report adjusted pretax profit in a range from 933 million to 985 million pounds ($1.13 billion-$1.20 billion).<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Total revenue growth for the 22 weeks to Dec. 31 was more than 10%, compared with growth of 5% for the first half, it said. Performance through Christmas was particularly impressive, it said, with total revenue growth over the six-week period to Dec. 31 of more than 20%.<\/p>\n<p>North America recovered strongly, delivering growth of more than 20% through the second half to date, it said.<\/p>\n<p>For fiscal 2024, the company sees adjusted pretax profit of just over GBP1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Write to Kyle Morris at <span \n                data-original-string='hOfxnZ+uAsD\/8Wyk6lN+tQ==7f4ornNRkBUHfKGbNdRBhanBwmIlc3\/8oydIFLesWtE6BE='\n                class='apbct-email-encoder'\n                title='This contact has been encoded by Anti-Spam by CleanTalk. Click to decode. To finish the decoding make sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser.'>ky<span class=\"apbct-blur\">*********<\/span>@<span class=\"apbct-blur\">******<\/span>es.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7B20C0C4D5-7425-4434-F126-6309F27AFC8A%7D&#038;siteid=rss&#038;rss=1\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Camellia Noren<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Sports Fashion PLC said Wednesday that it expects to report fiscal 2023 adjusted pretax profit toward the top end of market expectations after it booked a strong performance during the Christmas period. The sports-and-fashion retailer JD, +6.99% said that for the fiscal year ending Jan. 28 it expects to report adjusted pretax profit in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[520,106746],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-596519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jones","8":"category-newswires"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}