American Eagle Outfitters

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...

According to CNBC, yes. The improving economy is opening the pockets of companies and PE firms looking to deploy cash. Apparel retailer, American Eagle (NYSE: AEO) is on the short list of possible targets, M&A watchers say. Citigroup analyst, Scott Chronert, says rising valuations, a stable...

While most of the big retailers already have posted their most recent quarterly results, Wednesday will bring fourth-quarter and full fiscal-year reports from specialty retailers American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO), Big Lots (NYSE: BIG), PetSmart (NYSE: PETM) and Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS). Analysts...

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...

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...

This weekend in Barron's online: a special report on the debt crisis, the coming smartphone slowdown, and the prospects for Linn Energy, American Eagle Outfitters and Rochester Medical. Cover Story "Next Stop, Greece" by Gene Epstein. This part of the special report on the debt crisis suggests...

Here is a quick look at some of the top-performing dividend-paying stocks in the past month. These companies all have a market cap of more than $500 million, and their share prices are more than 20 percent higher than 30 days ago. Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) shares jumped more than 30...

American Eagle Outfitters (NYSE: AEO) announced its earnings for the third quarter of 2012 Wednesday morning. Net sales increased by 11 percent to a record $910 million, up from $819 million in the same quarter last year. Gross profit increased 21 percent to $379 million. Operating income increased...

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...

Last week, big-box retailers Walmart (NYSE: WMT) and Home Depot (NYSE: HD) said their earnings and sales rose in the most recent quarter, and they both boosted their full-year earnings per share (EPS) guidance. More earnings reports are due from retailers this week, highlighted by second-quarter...