Past Meat (BYND) Q3 2021 earnings miss

Past Meat on Wednesday reported a wider-than-expected loss for its third quarter as U.S. gross sales shrank.

The corporate’s fourth-quarter outlook additionally fell wanting Wall Avenue’s expectations.

Shares of the corporate tumbled as a lot as 17% in prolonged buying and selling.

Here is what the corporate reported in contrast with what Wall Avenue was anticipating, based mostly on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:

• Loss per share: 87 cents vs. 39 cents anticipated
• Income: $106.4 million vs. $109.2 million anticipated

Past reported fiscal third-quarter web lack of $54.8 million, or 87 cents per share, wider than a web lack of $19.3 million, or 31 cents per share, a yr earlier. Analysts surveyed by Refinitiv anticipated a lack of 39 cents per share.

Internet gross sales rose 12.7% to $106.4 million, lacking expectations of $109.2 million. The corporate reported sturdy progress outdoors america, with worldwide grocery and restaurant divisions every seeing gross sales greater than double in the course of the quarter.

Nonetheless, U.S. income fell 13.9% in contrast with a yr in the past, principally resulting from weaker grocery demand. The corporate mentioned softer demand and operational challenges, like extreme climate, harm its home gross sales. New merchandise, like its meatless hen, barely offset declines.

In October, the corporate warned traders that it could be reporting weaker gross sales than it had beforehand predicted, citing a variety of things, together with the delta variant and distribution issues.

And the corporate’s forecast does not point out a sunnier fourth quarter. Past is predicting web gross sales of $85 million to $110 million for these three months. Wall Avenue was anticipating income of $131.6 million in the course of the quarter.

“Close to-term market and working circumstances however, we stay dedicated to our long-term technique,” CEO Ethan Brown mentioned in an announcement.