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Sunday, March 10, 2013 - 2:37pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 11
The earnings stage remains fairly quiet this week, though a scattering of retailers are scheduled to share their most recent results. The most prominent of those are S&P 500 components Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) and Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN). Analysts on average expect year-over-year...
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Friday, March 8, 2013 - 8:12am
Hot Topic Takeover Sparks First Lawsuit
Hot Topic (NASDAQ: HOTT) shares rose to a six-year high, Thursday, before closing at $13.87, up 29 percent. This on news from Reuters that private equity firm Sycamore Partners plans to take the teen apparel retailer private in a $600 million deal. Sycamore, founded by former retail specialist...
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Sunday, March 3, 2013 - 6:34pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 4
Now that Congress and the White House have failed to reach a deal to avoid the federal budget sequester, and with the jobs report coming out on Friday, the attention this week is likely to be elsewhere, rather than on earnings, which have slowed to dribble. A few lingering retail earnings reports...
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 5:22pm
Abercrombie & Fitch Earnings Preview: Turnaround Expected to Continue
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF), which has been interested in opening a store in the former offices of The Beatles' Apple Records in London, is scheduled to report its fourth-quarter and full-year fiscal 2012 results Friday, February 22, before the markets open. Investors will be looking for...
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Sunday, November 25, 2012 - 2:19pm
Earnings Expectations for the Week of November 26
While the holiday season is in full swing now, the earnings season is winding down. Perhaps the most prominent quarterly reports on this week's schedule those from Kroger, the country's largest grocery store chain, and Tiffany, the iconic purveyor of luxury goods. The consensus forecasts of...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012 - 8:49am
Earnings Expectations for the Week of May 14 (WMT, HD, ANF)Last week, Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) kicked off the parade of earnings reports from big retailers. Macy's and Nordstrom reported EPS growth; Macy's and Kohl's topped EPS estimates. This week, Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and Target (NYSE: TGT) are...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 7:13am
Gap, Sears and Other Retail Stocks Up More Than 35% Year to DateThis week, Kohl's (NYSE: KSS), Macy's (NYSE: M) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) kick off this quarter's parade of earnings reports from retailers. Walmart (NYSE: WMT), Home Depot (NYSE: HD) and many others are scheduled to post results next week. Here is a quick look at some retailers with share prices...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 6:43am
Guess? Earnings Preview: Lower EPS, Higher Sales ExpectedGuess? (NYSE: GES) is scheduled to report fiscal fourth-quarter results tomorrow, March 14, after the closing bell. Investors have seen the company's net income fall year over year by an average of 2.3% over the past five quarters. But revenue has now risen for three straight quarters. Investors...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012 - 11:04am
Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 12 (URBN, ROST)Things will quiet on the earnings front this week. Perhaps the two most prominent quarterly reports will come from retailers and S&P 500 components Urban Outfitters (NASDAQ: URBN) and Ross Stores (NASDAQ: ROST). Analysts on average expect both companies to post year-over-year revenue growth of...
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Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 11:21am
Earnings Expectations for the Week of March 5Most of the S&P 500 have already posted their fourth-quarter results. But a few of them are scheduled to report fiscal quarterly results this week. These include Altera, Brown-Forman, H&R Block and Pall Corp. Also, earnings reports from retailers continue to roll out this week, as they have...
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