Insiders still discovering the upside: management reports the opportunity keeps revealing itself bigger in live operatio
The model's full reasoning — Q1 2017 call → NOThe question asks whether management conveys that it is still discovering new upside inside business that is already working — that in the course of actually operating, selling, or delivering in the recent period, the company keeps encountering genuine positive surprises about how much more there is for it to do — AND is management responding to those discoveries with real attention or resources now. Let me examine the transcript for evidence of this. Key points from the call: - Europe retail comps up mid-teens, positive comps in almost all markets - Europe wholesale order book for fall/winter finished up 3% - The order book inflection: Sandeep says "I've been saying for the last year or two that Retail is going to be a leading indicator what happens in wholesale and sure enough, I mean we've been seeing very strong comps for almost a year now in Europe, and the wholesale book is as followed. So I think it just lag factor that you see with wholesale but ultimately the same trends will play out." This is interesting - the wholesale order book turning positive after retail comps being strong is a discovery that the retail strength is translating to wholesale. But is this a "fresh discovery" or just confirmation of expected trends? Let me look for more specific evidence of "discovering new upside" - genuine positive surprises from live operation. Victor Herrero on Europe: "our business in Europe is for the first quarter of this year is a positive news because basically regarding retail stores we are comping mid-teens up and in wholesale basically the order value for winter 2016 is going to be up by 3%. So the reason for this I think there are several reasons and starting from wholesale I think that the product, I think that we improved the product that we are offering to our wholesale partners and regarding the retail as well is basically several things." This seems more like reporting good results rather than discovering new upside. The question asks about "genuine positive surprises about how much more there is for it to do" - discoveries that management didn't fully appreciate before, grounded in real current activity.
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