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Why Rite Aid Stock Is Tumbling Today

Rite Aid’s recent update to its outlook includes lowering its Adjusted EBITDA expectations to between $540 million and $590 million. The outlook update from Rite Aid also includes its net loss now coming in between $125 million and $170 million. The final change to Rite Aid’s outlook for the full year of fiscal 2019 includes lowering its earnings per share expectations. …read more […]

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Rite Aid cuts fiscal 2019 forecast with buyout vote looming

Rite Aid is chopping its annual earnings forecast three days before its shareholders vote on whether to approve the sale of the company. Shares of the nation’s third-largest drugstore chain tumbled 10 percent Monday after the company said generic drug pricing isn’t shaping up how it expected in April when it first made its fiscal 2019 forecast. Rite Aid said it changed its outlook after realizing that reductions in the cost of generic drugs are coming in about $80 million lower than the company expected when it established its fiscal 2019 forecast. …read more […]