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American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) has achieved regular development over 2015-18, with the corporate’s revenues rising by greater than 14%. Nonetheless, the attire firm’s bills have adopted an analogous pattern over this era – leading to earnings remaining broadly degree. Though the corporate’s revenues are prone to develop by 6.8% in FY 2019 (ending January), bills are prone to have grown at a quicker tempo (7.4%). This could end in American Eagle’s earnings margin (i.e., revenues much less all bills, expressed as a share of revenues) contracting by 55 foundation factors from 6.5% in 2018 to an anticipated 5.9% in 2019 – leading to a slight discount in American Eagle’s earnings for the yr. Trefis breaks down the corporate’s main expense parts in its interactive dashboard, ‘American Eagle Outfitters Expenses: How Does American Eagle Outfitters Spend Its Cash?’ elements of that are summarized beneath.
Notably, working bills (which embody promoting, common, administrative (SG&A) and different prices) are anticipated to be $1.2 billion in FY 2019 – making up 30% of American Eagle’s $Four billion in complete bills for the yr….