CLAIM #46526 · Nike Inc (NKE) · 2025Q4 earnings call · Jun 26, 2025 · due May 31, 2026
“But we do expect that to moderate in the second half of the fiscal year.”
Matt Friend · CFO
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“75 basis point impact on our gross margin. Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Lorraine Hutchinson with Bank of America. Lorraine Corrine Maikis Hutchinson: I wanted to focus on gross margin for a minute. Are you expecting the pressures to abate sequentially as the year progresses? And can you talk about the back half if there's an opportunity to return the gross margins to growth? Matthew Friend: Yes, Lorraine. Taking all of the comments that we've made into consideration, we do expect our margins to remain under pressure in the first half of '26 as we finish executing our Win Now actions. We expect that our first half to be impacted from the strategic actions we've outlined, but also the timing of the tariff implementation relative to the actions that we're implementing. But we do expect that to moderate in the second half of the fiscal year. When I think about our '26 margins, I sort of step back and think of 3 dynamics that we have. One, we've got short-term product and channel mix headwinds that we're going to navigate through the year as we manage our product portfolio and shift our marketplace portfolio towards our wholesale partners. We've got the transitory impact of the Win Now actions which are largely impacting the first half of fiscal '26, and then we've got the newly implemented tariffs. And I said that's a 75 basis point impact on the year. It's a 100 basis point impact in the first quarter. And we expect to see those headwinds begin to moderate from there. Operator: Our next question comes from the line of Jonathan Komp with Baird. Jonathan Robert Komp: I want to follow up. There's obviously too many dynamics to”
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