Citi Trends Provides Business Update
Fully repaid outstanding borrowings under revolving credit facility
Reinstates
Reaffirms prior third quarter 2020 guidance
Business Update
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The Company today announced that it has fully repaid the
$41.6 million of borrowings that were outstanding under its revolving credit facility. The draw down on the revolving credit facility inMarch 2020 was a proactive measure to enhance the Company’s liquidity position in response to the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) pandemic. -
The Company today announced the reinstatement of its previously authorized
$30 million share repurchase program. Repurchases under this program were temporarily suspended inMarch 2020 due to the economic uncertainty stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company expects to fund the share repurchase program from cash on hand.
Chief Executive Officer Comments
Makuen concluded, “As we exited the traditional back-to-school selling season, we are encouraged by more normalized trends and we are now turning our focus to readying our fleet for the important holiday selling season with an emphasis on extreme value gifts for Christmas and Kwanzaa.”
Guidance
The Company reaffirms its previously announced financial guidance for fiscal 2020 third quarter of estimating a comparable store sales range of negative mid-single digits to flat with continued gross margin expansion building on momentum from the second quarter. This estimate continues to be subject to potential consumer and marketplace volatility due to the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore may change as the quarter progresses.
The Company today announced that representatives of the Company will host one-on-one investor meetings at the 3rd Annual
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