By Anthony Shevlin 
 

Shares in Carrefour SA (CA.FR) surged on Thursday following the company's third-quarter sales update late Wednesday.

The French retailer said sales in the three months ended Sept. 30 were 21.09 billion euros ($24.42 billion), down 2.8% due to the depreciation of the Brazilian real and the Argentine peso. Stripping out the negative currency hit however, sales would have grown 2.7%.

Sales in the company's domestic French market rose 2.1% as supermarkets and other formats grew and hypermarkets remained stable on a like-for-like basis.

At GMT 0705, shares in Carrefour traded at EUR16.59, up 6.5%.

Analysts at Bernstein said the sales update shows Carrefour's transformation plan is beginning to pay off in France. "This is a first encouraging quarter for the turnaround," said Bernstein.

 

Write to Anthony Shevlin at anthony.shevlin@dowjones.com; @anthony_shevlin

 

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

October 18, 2018 03:34 ET (07:34 GMT)

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