Next has raised its full-year profit guidance after reporting a sharper-than-anticipated rise in full-price sales for the third quarter (Q3) of 2025. The retailer now expects a pretax profit of £1.135bn ($1.52bn) for the year to January 2026, up from a previous estimate of £1.105bn and ahead of the £1.011bn recorded in 2024/25. Full-price sales in the 13 weeks to 25 October rose 10.5%, outperforming guidance of 4.5% by £76m. UK sales increased 5.4%, above the 1.9% target though slower than the 7.6% grow ...