Shares of Chewy surged greater than 13% in prolonged buying and selling Wednesday after the pet retailer posted earnings that beat Wall Road’s estimates.

This is how the digital retailer did in its fiscal first quarter in contrast with what Wall Road was anticipating, based mostly on a survey of analysts by Refinitiv:

• Earnings per share: 5 cents, versus a lack of 4 cents a share anticipated
• Income: $2.78 billion, versus $2.73 billion anticipated

The corporate’s reported internet earnings for the three-month interval that ended April 30 was $22.18 million, or 5 cents a share, in contrast with $18.47 million, or 4 cents a share, a yr earlier.

Gross sales rose to $2.78 billion, up 14.7% from $2.43 billion a yr earlier.

Internet gross sales per lively buyer and gross sales from autoship prospects reached document highs within the quarter, Chewy stated in a press launch.

Gross margins had been up about 1 proportion level.

The earnings beat comes after the retailer posted its first annual revenue on the shut of fiscal 2022 earlier this yr, however famous the pet trade was seeing softness in discretionary and onerous items classes, which carry greater margins than consumables corresponding to pet meals.