{"id":10581,"date":"2018-06-15T08:58:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.chainstoreguide.com\/?p=10581"},"modified":"2018-06-15T08:58:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T12:58:40","slug":"ulta-exceeds-expectations-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/06\/ulta-exceeds-expectations-q1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ulta Exceeds Expectations in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While executives tried to put a damper on the excitement heading into the second quarter, <strong>Ulta Beauty<\/strong> blew away analysts\u2019 expectations for the first quarter ended May 5. Year-over-year net sales grew by 17.4% to more than $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Same store sales grew by a healthy 8.1%, but there are signs that Ulta\u2019s successful run is catching up with it at the store level. That 8.1% comp growth rate is the lowest Ulta has posted in more than two years. One answer to that challenge? More stores. Projections for fiscal 2018 include 100+ new store openings for the fourth consecutive year, according to Chain Store Guide\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/c-82-drug-store-and-hbc-chain-leads.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Drug Stores &amp; HBC Chains Database<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div class='tableauPlaceholder' id='viz1529067417791' style='position: relative'><noscript><a href='#'><img alt='Dashboard 1 ' src='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Ul&#47;UltaQuarterlySales0618&#47;Dashboard1&#47;1_rss.png' style='border: none' \/><\/a><\/noscript><object class='tableauViz'  style='display:none;'><param name='host_url' value='https%3A%2F%2Fpublic.tableau.com%2F' \/><param name='embed_code_version' value='3' \/><param name='site_root' value='' \/><param name='name' value='UltaQuarterlySales0618&#47;Dashboard1' \/><param name='tabs' value='no' \/><param name='toolbar' value='yes' \/><param name='static_image' value='https:&#47;&#47;public.tableau.com&#47;static&#47;images&#47;Ul&#47;UltaQuarterlySales0618&#47;Dashboard1&#47;1.png' \/><param name='animate_transition' value='yes' \/><param name='display_static_image' value='yes' \/><param name='display_spinner' value='yes' \/><param name='display_overlay' value='yes' \/><param name='display_count' value='yes' \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>                <script type='text\/javascript'>                    var divElement = document.getElementById('viz1529067417791');                    var vizElement = divElement.getElementsByTagName('object')[0];                    vizElement.style.width='600px';vizElement.style.height='727px';                    var scriptElement = document.createElement('script');                    scriptElement.src = 'https:\/\/public.tableau.com\/javascripts\/api\/viz_v1.js';                    vizElement.parentNode.insertBefore(scriptElement, vizElement);                <\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While executives tried to put a damper on the excitement heading into the second quarter, Ulta Beauty blew away analysts\u2019 expectations for the first quarter ended May 5. Year-over-year net sales grew by 17.4% to more than $1.5 billion. Same store sales grew by a healthy 8.1%, but there are signs that Ulta\u2019s successful run&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/2018\/06\/ulta-exceeds-expectations-q1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ulta Exceeds Expectations in Q1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"post-template-no-sidebar.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-10581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-hbc","tag-insight","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chainstoreguide.com\/offthechain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}