By Emily Dattilo
Shares of Ulta Beauty were trading lower Friday after Berkshire Hathaway disclosed it had sold nearly all its stake in the cosmetics retailer that it had accumulated in the second quarter.
Ulta stock dropped 5.1% to $363.10 in premarket trading on Friday and was on track for its largest daily percentage decrease since April, according to Dow Jones Market Data. Shares have fallen 26% this year, putting them on pace for their worst year since 2008.
Berkshire held 24,000 shares of Ulta on Sept. 30, having sold 666,000 shares in the third quarter, according to a quarterly form 13-F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission released late Thursday. That is a sharp reversal from the 690,000 Ulta shares Berkshire snapped up in the second quarter.
In August, Ulta Beauty reported lower-than-expected revenue and earnings per share for its fiscal second quarter ended Aug. 3. It also reduced its full-year guidance for net sales, earnings per share, operating margin, and same-store sales.
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