Wilcon Q3 profit up 17% year-on-year, but down 3% quarter-on-quarter
Wilcon's [WLCON 31.65 6.21%] Q3/21 profit of P622 million, up 17% from Q3/20 profit of P533 million, and down 3% from Q2/21 profit of P643 million. The home improvement and construction supplies retailer easily beat last year’s Q3 performance, but due to the movement restrictions applied as a result of the Delta variant, WLCON’s Q3 numbers under-performed its Q2 numbers by a small margin.
The company reported that it opened 6 new large format stores during the first 9 months of 2021; because of that expansion, WLCON also saw a 11.4% interest expense increase related to the leases for these new stores. The new stores accounted for 10.1% of the 27% total net sales increase y/y. WLCON said that it was looking forward to a stronger Q4, with hopes that easing restrictions will allow its customers to “finish or start their home improvement projects in time for the Christmas holidays”.
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As we’ve mentioned before, it’s full-steam ahead for anything in the real-estate ecosystem, provided the country isn’t forced to apply lockdown policies to suppress mortality associated with a COVID variant. Shareholders will like to see WLCON finish off its 9-store expansion this year (just 3 more to go), and continue margin-buffing through its “product mix” adjustments that had a positive impact on margins.
This is the same playbook for the Villar Family’s AllHome [HOME 10.60 6.00%], which also relies on expansion and in-house product mix to drive sales and margin growth.
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