Reckitt reports disappointing Q2 sales, says costs to hit margins By Reuters

Reckitt reports disappointing Q2 sales, says costs to hit margins

Stock MarketsJul 27, 2021 03:46AM ET

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Reckitt reports disappointing Q2 sales, says costs to hit margins

By Siddharth Cavale

(Reuters) -Reckitt Benckiser Group posted disappointing second-quarter sales growth and warned on margins on Tuesday sending its shares 9% lower as costs rise and easing lockdowns slow growth in products such as Lysol disinfectants.

Like-for-like sales rose 2.2% for the three months to June 30, excluding its infant nutrition business in China, lower than the 2.3% growth analysts had expected, according to a company-supplied consensus.

The stock, down 5% this year, was the top loser on the FTSE 100 index in morning trading.

The pandemic boosted Reckitt's sales to record levels last year, but there are signs that momentum is easing as vaccinations gather pace and stay-at-home restrictions in developed economies are lifted.

Reckitt said brands including Finish, Airwick, Harpic and Veet, which make up 70% of its sales, are growing, but at slower rates than last year, while brands like Durex, Vanish and Nurofen are returning to growth as market conditions normalise.

Its hygiene business, which includes disinfectants and Finish dishwasher pods, saw like-for-like sales rise 7.8%, while its health business, which makes Mucinex cough syrup and Strepsils lozenges, fell 5.6%.

CEO Laxman Narasimhan said trends for its cold and flu products had improved in the second quarter.

Like its peers, the company saw costs rise for plastics and paper as well as higher freight and logistics costs.

Cost of goods sold rose 8-9% in the quarter, Chief Financial Officer Jeff Carr said on a media call.

The company now expects an adjusted operating margin 22.7% to 23.2% for 2021, lower than the 23.6% it generated in 2020.

Adjusted earnings per share for the six months ended June came in at 142.6 pence, below the 144.4 pence average estimate.

The company, which rebranded as Reckitt from RB earlier this year, maintained its full-year sales growth forecast of between 0% and 2%.

The company also reported an operating loss of 1.83 billion pounds in the first half of the year, mainly due to a nearly 3 billion pound charge taken on the sale of its infant nutrition business in China and a 165 million loss on the sale of Scholl - deals that were announced earlier this year.

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