Buying frenzy for Coles shares after bumper sales year
Coles Group has started the new financial year strongly after publishing stars winning results for the last 12 months that fly its stock.
On Tuesday, the shares of the grocery store and Liquor have rose to the highest level of 8.5 percent with the best one-day performance since the excessive volatility at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandema.
The supermarket giant, after 52 weeks until June 29, after the sale of 44.3 billion dollars, after the fact that it is one week longer after the fact that the Coles’ previous financial year increases by 3.6 percent.
Supermarket sales increased by 4.3 percent to $ 40 billion while excluding tobacco products – sales from Liquorland stores increased by 1.1 percent to 3.7 billion dollars.
Coles increased by 2.4 percent from 2024/25 to a profit of $ 1.1 billion.
Leah Weckert, Chairman of the Executive Officer, said the company focuses consistently on its strategic priorities throughout the financial year.
“There is no doubt that the value remains in front of the mind for our customers, and we have continued to work hard to offer a challenging offer with quality products at all price points,” he said.
Coles said that “big value, hands down” seasonal value campaigns focus on less, deeper promotions with the expanded product range.
Customers also responded positively to the Curtis Stone Glassware and Harry Potter Magical Discs campaign.
Coles was paying the new state -of -the -art customer -fulfillment centers in Sydney and Melbourne and an automatic distribution center in West Sydney, but Coles 2024/25 was exposed to double working costs of $ 103 million.
Coles says that this year is not responsible for these costs and the investment in the centers of fulfilling $ 400 million is already working.
High -tech warehouses allow them to deliver the next day to all customers in Sydney and Melbourne, while offering a third product from average Coles store stocks.
Coles, e-commerce supermarket sales increased by 24.4 percent to create 11.2 percent of all grocery sales, customer satisfaction surveys show that shoppers like the freshness of products such as fruits given by refrigerator trucks, he said.
Coles’s momentum continued in the new financial year, and supermarket sales increased by 7.0 percent in the first eight weeks of 2025/26, excluding tobacco products.
Weckert said Coles’ sales growth as “green exiles, and said that an analyst mocked and more than that.
“Look, it was a nice start for the year,” he replied.
“It is our job to be careful about this and especially to think about what the customer will want when entering a really important trade period for Christmas.”
Coles released a total of 32 cents dividends from 68 cents to 69 cents last year.
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