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Domino’s earnings miss expectations as pizza chain cites tough labor market, higher costs
An employee places a cooked pizza into a delivery box inside a Domino’s Pizza Group Plc store.
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Domino’s Pizza on Thursday reported mixed quarterly results as the pizza chain struggled with higher costs and the ongoing shortage of delivery drivers.
Shares of the company fell less than 1% in premarket trading.
Here’s what the company reported compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:
- Earnings per share: $2.82 vs. $2.91 expected
- Revenue: $1.07 billion vs. $1.05 billion expected
Domino’s reported second-quarter net income of $102.5 million, or $2.82 per share, down from $116.6 million, or $3.06 per share, a year earlier.
Net sales rose 3.2% to $1.07 billion.