Sports apparel giant Nike (NKE) reported fiscal second quarter earnings, exceeding analyst estimates for both revenue and profit. Bernstein senior analyst Aneesha Sherman joins Market Domination Overtime to evaluate Nike’s growth prospects.

Sherman describes it as “a good quarter” for the sportswear brand, though “unexpected.” She highlights that the most promising signal came from the press release’s messaging about “taking immediate action, returning to sport, returning to our roots, being Nike again.”

She notes that historically, whenever Nike experiences a down year, it refocuses on its sporting foundation, “which has sort of been lost in the last few years” amid its innovation efforts. Sherman emphasizes that the new CEO, Elliott Hill should prioritize the company’s distribution strategy to make a meaningful impact.

“Elliott Hill’s background is perfect for this,” she explains. With Hill’s 30-year tenure at Nike, he is “intimately familiar with the channels,” making him “the perfect person to lead this return back to distribution.”

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This post was written by Angel Smith