Autozone Inc at Raymond James Institutional Investors Conference Transcript

Mar 05, 2019 / 03:25PM GMT
Brian L. Campbell - AutoZone, Inc. - VP of Tax, Treasury & IR

Good morning, everyone. I'll go to the podium for a second, but I wanted to spend one moment here recognizing -- I don't always have Tom with me. So he's the perfect guy to ask questions to. He's out there every day talking about both retail and commercial strategy. I can talk a little bit about the financial background, but Tom is unique in that he grew up in the culture of AutoZone. We definitely pride ourselves on the fact of years of service and who we are.

And I'll jump right in. We just had an earnings release last week, last Tuesday, 1 week ago. It seems like 5 years ago. How time flies these days. But we're happy to see you. Our sales results, we -- I'll get to that, but we comped north of 2% same-store sales result. Our EPS was up north of 10%. Our gross margins were positive in the quarter as well. We will talk to you a little bit today about where that growth came from and the strategies. We executed well. We were proud of our results. I know a lot of companies say strong results and things, but we felt very good about

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