secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (GO)
CIK:        0001771515
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-11-07T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001771515-23-000101
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  positive
Materiality: 0.80
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

Grocery Outlet Q3: Net sales up 9.3%, comp sales +6.4%, EPS $0.27, adjusted EBITDA +20%
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- Net sales rose 9.3% to $1.00B; comparable store sales increased 6.4% (transactions +8.6%, avg ticket -1.9%).
- GAAP net income $27.1M ($0.27 diluted EPS), up 55.1%; adjusted EBITDA $68.1M, up 20.0%.
- Gross margin expanded 80 bps to 31.4%; late-August tech disruption hurt comp sales by ~150 bps and margin by 50 bps.
- Opened 8 new stores in Q3, ending with 455 stores; company updated fiscal 2023 guidance (specifics not in excerpt).

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151523000101/0001771515-23-000101-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1771515/000177151523000101/go-20231107.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001771515-23-000101

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