Investing can quickly get complicated, because putting money to work in different sectors requires you to monitor different things. For example, the difference between sales and same-store sales is vital to understand in the retail sector.
On that front, recent performance by growing retailers Floor & Decor (NYSE: FND) and The Container Store (NYSE: TCS) help to show why investors need to care so much about these two similar but different metrics.
A company's sales are pretty simple to understand. It is the "top-line" number, and includes all of the revenue a company generates. In the retail sector , that generally means the total value of all of the products a company sold to consumers across its entire store footprint. That last bit is important, because it is what differentiates sales from same-store sales.
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