HR CEO Gary Friedman looked at the luxury furniture retailer tank at his conference call for results with analysts Wednesday in the middle of the unveiling of President Donald Trump pricing policy.
Two words summed up the situation:
“Oh, sh–. Ok. … I just looked at the screen. I hadn't watched it. He was touched when I think the prices came out. And everyone can see in our 10 k where we are producing, so it's not a secret, and we don't try to disguise it by putting everything in a bucket in Asia.”
HR shares plunged around 40% while investors reacted to the double blow of HR which publishes its bad report on the profits and Trump samples from foreign countries. Thursday's move marked the company's largest loss of day in California in 13 years on the public market and has brought the stock to its lowest fence since 2020.
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Directly following Friedman's explanative, the explanation by the chief executive of the place where the blow came from the ignition to Trump announcing his controversial On imports to the United States on Wednesday afternoon.
Future scholarships crater Wednesday evening, when Trump's prices were announced. THE Industrial average Dow Jones I lost almost 1,600 points during the session stockings on Thursday while the benefits continued.
Friedman said that it was “no secret” that HR gets in Asia, but noted that most of the other major players in the domestic sector have done the same.
In particular, Trump slapped 46% samples from Vietnam and 32% in Taiwan. The real rate of price of China increased to 54% after the new increases unveiled during the announcement of the White House.
“Any scale scale in the house sector has a high percentage of its content in Asia,” he said. “Whoever said no, it would shock me.”
“ The worst housing market in almost 50 years ''
These tasks offer another challenge for the seller of products such as carpets and dining tables. HR, whose stock has completed its worst quarter since 2020 this week, has already faced what Friedman described as the most difficult housing market in about half a century.
More specifically, Friedman pointed out to analysts that there were 4.09 million existing houses sold in the United States in 1978, when the country had 223 million inhabitants. In 2024, while the population climbed up to 341 million, only 4.06 million houses were sold.
“The fact is that we have been operating on the worst housing market for almost 50 years,” he said.
However, Friedman said that HR had been able to perform “at a level that most would expect a robust housing market”. Despite this declaration, the company has missed the expectations of profits for the quarter and offered advice on low income, with Friedman, analysts to prepare for a “higher risk business” due to market volatility and inflation risks in addition to prices.
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HR won $ 1.58 per share, excluding articles, out of $ 812 million in revenue for the fourth quarter. Analysts interviewed by LSEG predicted $ 1.92 of profit per share and $ 830 million in revenues.
For the future, the company has told investors to expect income growth between 12.5% and 13.5% in the current quarter and within a range of 10% to 13% for the full year. The two lacked consensus forecasts of the analysts interviewed by Fostset, which have a growth pencil at 16.2% for the first quarter and 14% for the year.
While Friedman awarded part of the decline in action to the threat of prices, he said that the company was not taken without a plan. Although HR has not yet shared details, Friedman said there was a long -term strategy for supply which is “large and daring” – and could see its calendar increase as a result of the new policy.
“This decision is quite surprising,” said Friedman about Trump's commercial announcement. “It will force everyone to play a different game.”
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