Stitch Fix (SFIX) reported earnings Tue 22 Sept 20 (a/h)

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Stitch Fix misses by $0.27, beats on revs

Reports Q4 (Jul) loss of $0.44 per share, $0.27 worse than the S&P Capital IQ Consensus of ($0.17); revenues rose 2.6% year/year to $443.4 mln vs the $415.52 mln S&P Capital IQ Consensus.

Reports active clients of 3.5 million, an increase of 9% year over year.

Net revenue per active client of $486, an increase of 2% year over year on an adjusted basis.

The San Francisco-based company reported a fourth-quarter loss of $44.5 million, or 44 cents a share, vs. a profit of $7.2 million, or 7 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted Ebitda, excluding stock-based compensation, was $11.8 million. Revenue rose to $443 million from $432 million in the year-ago quarter. Analysts surveyed by FactSet had forecast a loss of 16 cents a share on revenue of $415.2 million.

Stitch Fix grew its active clients 9% year-over-year to 3.5 million, and CEO Katrina Lake said in a statement that she was proud of her team for “successfully navigating through the deepest impacts of COVID-19” and expressed optimism about the future of online shopping.

Stitch Fix shares have risen more than 19% so far this year, about on par with the Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -2.73%, which is up about 20%.

IPOs this week : September 21 - 25, 20 (wk 39)

IPOs expected to price

• Corsair Gaming (CRSR), GoodRx (NASDAQ:GDRX), RiverNorth Flexible Income Fund (NYSE:RFM) and Amesite Operating (AMST). 

Of the bunch, Corsair may generate the most interest with the gaming sector heating up. The California-based provider of gaming gear and content is aiming to sell up to $252M worth of shares to value the company at up to $1.65B. 

IPO lockup expirations

Also, keep an eye on TELA Bio (NASDAQ:TELA), with 34% of its outstanding float being freed up through the expiration of an IPO lock-up period. 

Across the Pacific in Hong Kong, secondary share offerings are expected to start trading for ZTO Express (NYSE:ZTO), Zai Lab (NASDAQ:ZLAB) and Baozun (NASDAQ:BZUN), while SoftBank (SFTNY) aims to hand over shares between September 23-25 for its secondary offering of its telcoms business.

IPOs this week : September 14 - 18, 20 (wk 38)

IPOs expected to price

• Amwell (AMWL), 
• JFrog (FROG), 
• Outset Medical (OM), 
• Pactiv Evergreen (PTVE), 
• Broadstone Net Lease (BNL), 
• Snowflake (SNOW), 
• Sumo Logic (SUMO), 
• Unity Software (U) and 
• Vitru (VTRU). 

Snowflake is the big name to watch after the company attracted $570M from Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) and $250M from Salesforce.com (NYSE:CRM) for Class A shares. The data warehouse company plans to raise $2.2B by offering 28M shares in a price range of $75 to $85 to give it a market valuation in the range of $20.9B to $23.7B. The IPO will result in Class B shareholders having about 98% of the voting power at the company.

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The crown jewel of the sprawling Alibaba (NYSE:BABA) empire, Ant Group - formerly known as Ant Financial - has filed for an IPO on the Shanghai stock exchange's STAR market and the Hong Kong stock exchange. The firm is reportedly targeting a valuation of about $225B, based on an IPO of about $30B if markets are favorable, making it larger than some of America's biggest banks. Ant Group, which is still controlled by Alibaba founder Jack Ma, runs the popular Alipay mobile payments app in China which has over 900M users. It also offers other financial products and could use proceeds from the IPO to expand cross-border payments and enhance its research and development capabilities.