Levi Strauss Chief Executive Michelle Gass said the jeans maker will be “surgical” with any price hikes, rather than make across-the-board changes in response to tariffs. The company has created a task force to look at tariff-mitigation strategies,

Shares of Levi Strauss soared 13% in premarket trading Tuesday, a day after the denim giant reported better-than-expected first-quarter profit and gave a relatively upbeat outlook on the Trump administration's new tariffs.

Levi Strauss maintained on Monday its annual forecast for sales and profit, excluding the impact of tariffs, and posted quarterly profit ahead of Wall Street targets, sending its shares up more than 7% in after hours trade.

Levi Strauss & Co. on Monday reported a higher adjusted quarterly profit than Wall Street expected, and the denim and jeans maker said it was sticking with its full-year outlook — one that doesn’t include the potential impact from President Donald Trump’s tariffs.