{"id":1041559,"date":"2026-09-03T21:39:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1041559\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T21:39:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T21:39:15","slug":"lululemon-lulu-q2-2026-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1041559\/","title":{"rendered":"Lululemon (LULU) Q2 2026 earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoppers walk past a Lululemon store at a shopping mall on June 21, 2026, in Hong Kong, China.<\/p>\n<p>Cheng Xin | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Shares of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/LULU\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lululemon<\/a> plunged 15% on Thursday after the retailer reported another quarter of disappointing results and cut its outlook for the year.<\/p>\n<p>The company reported a 4% decline in revenue and a comparable sales decrease of 9% for the second fiscal quarter. It was only the latest rough quarter for the apparel retailer, after it reduced its guidance in the previous quarter. <\/p>\n<p>Interim CEO Meghan Frank said on a call with analysts that the company experienced &#8220;negative commentary&#8221; on social media that affected its performance in the second quarter. The company also experienced a &#8220;greater-than-expected&#8221; slowdown in some of its core categories, including leggings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While we are seeing good guest reaction to our activations and some of our newer styles, the overall response to our product launches remains inconsistent, and we&#8217;ve continued to see pressure on the brand in both of our largest markets,&#8221; Frank said.<\/p>\n<p>For the third fiscal quarter, Lululemon said it expects revenue to be between $2.29 billion and $2.32 billion, a decline of roughly 10% to 11% from the prior year. It anticipates earnings of 93 cents to 98 cents per share for the period. <\/p>\n<p>For the full year, Lululemon said it expects net revenue between $10.35 billion and $10.5 billion, representing a 5% to 7% decline, and down from its previous guidance of $11 billion to $11.15 billion. It anticipates earnings will be between $9.48 and $9.73 per share, compared to previous guidance of $10.95 to $11.15 per share. That new outlook includes a boost from tariff refunds, Lululemon added.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how Lululemon performed in its second fiscal quarter compared with what Wall Street was expecting, based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Earnings per share: <\/strong>$2.92, it was not immediately clear if that was comparable to the $1.79 expected<\/li>\n<li><strong>Revenue: <\/strong>$2.42 billion vs. $2.46 billion expected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For the quarter, Lululemon reported net income of $329.2 million, or $2.92 per share, compared to $370.9 million, or $3.10 per share, the year prior.<\/p>\n<p>The company said its gross profit decreased 1% to $1.5 billion while its gross margin grew 5.6%, boosted by a tariff refund of $134.5 million. <\/p>\n<p>Frank said on the Thursday call that Lululemon management is focusing on introducing new styles and tightening inventory to return to sales growth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know there is much more work to be done,&#8221; Frank said. &#8220;Our management team leaders and employees are focused on serving our guests and executing initiatives to drive an inflection in our business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lululemon has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/06\/04\/lululemon-lulu-earnings-q1-2026.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struggling to regain strength and relevancy<\/a> among its customers even as it faces criticism from founder Chip Wilson. The company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/22\/lululemon-names-former-nike-exec-heidi-oneill-as-new-ceo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new CEO<\/a>, Heidi O&#8217;Neill, will take the reins of the retailer next week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shoppers walk past a Lululemon store at a shopping mall on June 21, 2026, in Hong Kong, China.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1041560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[27915,9167,64,81,13656,27919,11731,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1041559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-apparel-retail","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-earnings","tag-lululemon-athletica-inc","tag-retail-industry","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117209280386346182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}