Booksellers

Barnes & Noble reported earnings for their fiscal first quarter on Thursday morning, through July 29, and the trendlines: Lower sales, lower store comps, and continuing losses, with both sales and earnings missing analysts’ modest expectations, sending shares down almost 12 percent in early trading. Sales of $853 million were $57 million lower, down 6.6…

Canadian chain Indigo continues to post good results, driven by their transformation to “cultural department stores.” Sales in their fiscal 2018 first quarter rose $13 million to $206 million (CA), with adjusted EBITDA of $100,000, compared to a loss of $6.1 million a year ago. The overall loss was $7.2 million, compared to a loss…

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reported flat second quarter sales at $393 billion, as billings declined by $17 million. In what is seasonally a weak quarter, they had a higher net loss of ($46.9 million), compared to ($28.4 million) a year ago, and a bigger operating loss, $10 million higher at $31 million. The restructuring plan that…

Apple reported fiscal 2017 third quarter earnings, with sales $45.4 billion (up $3 billion) and net income of $8.7 billion (up from $7.8 billion a year ago). Traditionally one of Apple’s lighter quarters, those results were still ahead of analysts’ expectations — and the company’s own guidance for the next quarter was also stronger than…

Amazon reported second quarter sales on Thursday after, with sales rising 25 percent to $38 billion, as earnings were in line with the wide-ranging guidance but towards the lower side where analysts had been hopeful for hitting the end. That translates into operating income of $628 million — down 51 percent — and net income…