** Shares of PriceSmart PSMT.O up 4.8% premarket to $82.04 after warehouse club chain's fiscal Q3 earnings top consensus
** San Diego-based firm late Weds posted adj EPS for qtr ended-May of $1.08, above Street view of $1.01, per LSEG
** Rev in qtr grew 12% to $1.23 bln, in-line with analysts' estimate of $1.21 bln
** Jefferies reiterates "buy", boosts PT by $2 to $92, calling PSMT a top pick in LatAm SMIDs (small and mid-cap)
** PSMT is a resilient compounder growing revenues at 10% CAGR in US$ over the past five years, with high single digit same-store-sales growth, Jefferies says in
** Through Weds, PSMT shares up 4.6% YTD
(Lance Tupper is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own)
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