shares of bjs wholesale club holdings inc bj surged 39 in premarket trading thursday after the membershipbased warehouse retailer reported fiscal firstquarter profit revenue and samestore sales that rose above expectations net income for the quarter to april 30 rose to 1125 million or 82 cents a share from 816 million or 59 cents a share in the yearago period excluding nonrecurring items adjusted earnings per share of 87 cents beat the factset consensus of 72 cents revenue grew 162 to 450 billion above the factset consensus of 424 billion total samestore sales jumped 144 and increased 41 when excluding gasoline sales while the factset consensus was 39 growth cost of sales increased 180 to 371 billion with gross margin contracting to 176 from 188 the company affirmed its fiscal 2022 eps outlook for flat versus a year ago the stock has dropped 202 year to date through wednesday while shares of rival costco wholesale corp cost has tumbled 244 and the sp 500 spx has lost 177