India’s Supermarket Chain D-Mart shares down nearly 10% post Q3 earnings
Shares of Avenue Supermarts, which runs the D-Mart supermarket chain, slumped nearly 10 percent today after its December 2018 quarter earnings failed to cheer investors.
On NSE, shares of the company tumbled 9.90 per cent to Rs 1,416.
Avenue Supermarts Saturday posted 2.1 percent jump in its net profit to Rs 257 crore for the December 2018 quarter.
The company had reported a net profit of Rs 252 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago, it said in a BSE filing.
While the gross margin impact of its now-known strategy of driving higher throughout its stores by lowering prices across categories has been built into forecasts, the disappointment this time round was led by a surprisingly sharp surge in other expenses' (45 per cent), it said.
"DMart's other expenses have rare...