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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-027155"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WSM"
cik: "0000719955"
company_name: "WILLIAMS SONOMA INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T19:25:28.203308+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Williams-Sonoma Q1 EPS $1.85, comps +3.4%; reiterates FY25 guidance

## Summary
- Q1 comparable brand revenue +3.4%; operating margin 16.8%; diluted EPS $1.85 (down 7% YoY, but up 8.8% excluding prior-year freight adjustment).
- Gross margin 44.3%, down 360bps YoY including $49M prior-year freight benefit; adjusted operating margin +70bps YoY.
- Liquidity of $1.0B cash; returned $165M to shareholders via $90M buybacks and $75M dividends; $1.1B remaining authorization.
- Reiterated FY25 guidance: net revenues -1.5% to +1.5% (53rd week impact), comps flat to +3.0%, operating margin 17.4%-17.8%.
- Inventories +10.3% to $1.3B due to strategic pull-forward to mitigate tariffs; absorbing current China 30%, global 10%, Mexico/Canada & steel/aluminum 25% tariffs.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-027155
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WSM
- cik: 0000719955
- company_name: WILLIAMS SONOMA INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-22T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719955/000162828025027155/0001628280-25-027155-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/719955/000162828025027155/wsm-20250522.htm

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