{"id":40081,"date":"2013-02-21T13:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40081"},"modified":"2013-02-21T13:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T21:36:00","slug":"billabong-things-may-be-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=40081","title":{"rendered":"Billabong: Things May Be Getting Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OB-WK367_bbg_E_20130219202403.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OB-WK367_bbg_E_20130219202403.jpg','popup','width=359,height=239,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/OB-WK367_bbg_E_20130219202403-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ob-Wk367 Bbg E 20130219202403\" \/><\/a><strong>Craig Woolford<\/strong>, a Citygroup analyst is warning investors that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billabong.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Billabong<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;could downgrade full-year earnings guidance when it delivers its first half result this Friday,&#8221; according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/dealjournalaustralia\/2013\/02\/21\/billabong-could-downgrade-earnings-again-says-citi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe see risk the full-year guidance of 85 million Australian dollars (US$87 million) to A$92 million in Ebitda may be revised lower,\u201d the broker said in a note to clients, explaining that the surfwear retailer may seek to provide significant clarity about its earnings trends given two private equity-backed consortia are conducting due diligence.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe this comes as one more reason <strong>Launa Inman<\/strong> (right) and the Billabong board should just take the VF Corp money and go their own ways.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/dealjournalaustralia\/2013\/02\/21\/billabong-could-downgrade-earnings-again-says-citi\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Woolford, a Citygroup analyst is warning investors that Billabong &#8220;could downgrade full-year earnings guidance when it delivers its first half result this Friday,&#8221; according to a story in the Wall Street Journal. \u201cWe see risk the full-year guidance of 85 million Australian dollars (US$87 million) to A$92 million in Ebitda may be revised lower,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40084,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40081\/revisions\/40084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}