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Dick's reported third-quarter adjusted earnings of $0.45 per share, missing expectations by a penny, on sales of $1.64 billion, below the $1.66 billion expected.
In early trading, shares of the retailer were down by as much as 17% to around $33.55 per share.
On Monday, shares of Dick's, which had already lost about 17% this year, closed at $40.78.
Same-store sales, or sales at stores open at least a year, were up 0.4% in the quarter across the company, less than the 1.9% increase that was expected. Same-store sales at Dick's stores were up 0.7%, less than the 1.9% increase that was expected, while sales at Golf Galaxy fell 2.9%, more than the 0.2% decline that was expected.
The really ugly part of the release, however, was the company's fourth-quarter guidance, which projected profit to come in way below expectations.
Dick's sees fourth-quarter adjusted earnings per share of $1.10 to $1.25, below analyst expectations for $1.42, and the company's full-year earnings outlook is now down to $2.85 to $3.00 per share from $3.13 to $3.21.
Same-store sales in the fourth quarter are expected to be in a range of down 2% to up 1%.
In its release, Dick's cited warm weather for taking a bite out of sales of winter apparel, and the company warned of a more "promotional environment" in the fourth quarter.
Said another way, Dick's expects that it and its peers will be running a lot of sales.
So yet another brutal report from a big box, brick-and-mortar retailer.