Dixons Carphone today beat fourth-quarter trading forecasts and narrowed its full-year headline pretax profit guidance to £485-490m from £475-495m.
The company trades as Currys, PC World and Carphone Warehouse in Ireland and the UK, Elkjop and Elgiganten in Nordic countries and Kotsovolos in Greece.
It said like-for-like group sales rose 2% in the 16 weeks to April 29, its fiscal fourth quarter, ahead of a company compiled consensus of 0.9% growth.
Like-for-like sales in the UK and Ireland rose 2%, driven by a strong electricals performance.
Before today's update analysts were on average forecasting a pretax profit of £490m for 2016-17, up from £447m in 2015-16.
