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Issuer:     AMERICAS CARMART INC (CRMT)
CIK:        0000799850
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-09-05T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001171843-23-005551
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

America's Car-Mart Q1 EPS $0.63 on $368M revenue; CEO succession to Doug Campbell
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- Diluted EPS $0.63 vs $2.07 a year ago; revenue $368M, up 8.6% YoY.
- Provision for credit losses 30.9% of sales (vs 25.9%); net charge-offs 5.8% (vs 5.1%).
- Interest income rose 27.3% to $56.5M; gross margin improved 120 bps sequentially to 36%.
- President Doug Campbell promoted to CEO effective Oct 1, 2023; Jeff Williams becomes CEO Emeritus through FY2024.
- Company expects higher future gross margins; continuing LOS and ERP technology investments.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799850/000117184323005551/0001171843-23-005551-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/799850/000117184323005551/f8k_090423.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001171843-23-005551

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