L’Oreal shares open down after sales miss forecasts
Shares in Maybelline and Lancome maker L’Oreal opened down on Friday after the French beauty group posted a sharper-than-expected fall in second-quarter sales, hurt by lockdowns to fight the coronavirus business.
Shares opened more than 1% lower. They were down 0.6% at 0714 GMT.
Revenue came in at 5.85 billion euros ($6.9 billion) in April-June, down 18.8% on a like-for-like basis, which strips out currency effects and acquisitions.
Analysts had on average expected a 13.1% like-for-like sales drop, according to a consensus forecast cited by Berenberg.
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