Americanas SA operates within the Catalog and mail-order houses sector. In addition to historical fundamental analyses, the complete report available to purchase compares Americanas SA with three other miscellaneous retailers and wholesalers in Latin America: Saraiva Livreiros SA em Recuperacao Judicial (2020 sales of 246.33 million Brazilian Reals [US$46.57 million] of which 100% was Retail), Grupo Gigante SAB de CV of MEXICO (26.28 billion Mexican Pesos [US$1.31 billion] of which 67% was Auto-Service), and Ripley Corp SA which is based in CHILE (1.50 trillion Chilean Pesos [US$1.90 billion] of which 50% was Retail Chile).

Sales Analysis. Sales were up sharply during the second quarter of 2021 versus the previous year's second quarter. During the second quarter of 2021, sales at Americanas SA totalled 4.38 billion Brazilian Reals. This is an increase of 80.0% from the 2.43 billion Brazilian Reals in sales at the company during the second quarter of 2020. During the first two quarters of 2021, sales totalled 7.32 billion Brazilian Reals, which is 77.3% higher than through the first two quarters of 2020. During the previous 9 quarters, sales at Americanas SA have increased compared with the same quarter in the previous year. There appears to be at least some degree of seasonality in the sales at Americanas SA: during 8 of the previous 9 years, sales were highest during the fourth quarter. The exception to this was during 2017, when the third quarter was the best quarter, accounting for 47% of sales (during that same year, the fourth quarter accounted for 30% of sales). During the year ended December of 2020, sales at Americanas SA were 10.12 billion Brazilian Reals (US$1.91 billion). This is an increase of 49.6% versus 2019, when the company's sales were 6.77 billion Brazilian Reals.