IWT Markets Wire
Real-time market intelligence & data strategy
The It’s A Working Title Markets Wire service (IWT Markets Wire) delivers real-time insights tailored specifically for the luxury industry. By tracking key economic indicators, consumer sentiment, and global market shifts, we provide an exclusive view into the cyclical and structural trends shaping luxury consumer behaviour and purchasing power. IWT Markets Wire produces forecasts for the industry using our own structural, econometric forecasting model as well as select machine learning algorithms to explore consumer trends across developed and emerging market economies. We also prepare our own All Luxury stock market index to give a clear picture on major industry market movements.
Apart from Richemont, luxury stocks continued to take a beating this week
While the S&P 500 hit a record high at the close of this week, luxury stocks continued to take a beating over the past five with almost the entire sector in the red. Year-to-date returns for LVMH and Kering exceed 10 percent while Hugo Boss is down close to 15...
Richemont reports strong Oct-Dec, driven by strong retail sales
After some mixed results at the start of the luxury earnings season from Burberry (downside surprise) and Brunello Cucinelli (upside surprise), Richemont reported today that October to December 2023 sales were up 8 percent at constant exchange rates with broad-based...
Bank of America forecasts mixed results from luxury in 2024
This nice piece shares BoA’s 2024 outlook for the luxury sector, which finds that while the whole sector will be coming off the post-pandemic bull market to growth rates that are more in line with historical experience, there will be more heterogeneity generally with...
Chinese regulators approve Tapestry-Capri deal
Seeking Alpha reports that, after some uncertainty, China's regulators have approved Tapestry's $8.5 billion purchase of Capri (https://lnkd.in/e9fyPRb7). It is not clear whether or how severe concerns may be been over the implications of the merger that will bring...
Brunello Cucinelli earnings crush analyst expectations
As reported by Glossy, 2023 was a stronger than expected year for Brunello Cucinelli, reporting Q4 growth of 15.6% y/y, slightly higher than consensus expectations. Looking ahead, Bryce Quillin PhD commented: “Brands like Cucinelli should be able to generate strong...
Luxury stocks struggle though MasterCard points to some reason for optimism
The first week of the year was a weak one for most major luxury stocks as investors began acting on repeated warnings from analysts (including FSW High Frequency Luxury) and luxury CFOs that this year, particularly H1, would represent a return to normal growth rates...
Luxury stocks take a beating
On the back of expectations for a weak of revenue growth this year, luxury stocks have started the year with a beating as the Stoxx Europe 10 index continued the downward trend that started in mid-December and is down by over 200 basis points today (chart below). We...