retail

Fashion retailer Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE: ANF) is slated to report second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, August 15 before market open. Wall Street analysts expect earnings per share (EPS) of $0.17 on revenue of $995.7 million. Abercrombie reported EPS of $0.03 in the previous quarter,...

By Ronald Thomas, Minyanville [Minyanville Editor's note: Consumer staples are tobacco, food, beverages, household products and cosmetics -- basically consumer packaged goods. Consumer cyclicals (also called discretionaries) are retailing, clothing manufacturers, restaurants, cruise lines, lodging...

The recent news of Best Buy’s (NYSE: BBY) store closings is just a continuation of the travails of bricks and mortar retail. Walk the streets of any metropolitan downtown and you can’t help but notice the increasing vacancies. Both strip and traditional malls have difficulty maintaining tenants...

With the news of Sears Holdings Corp. (NASDAQ: SHLD) and Best Buy's (NYSE: BBY) closing a number of stores, it is as if we are witnessing the twilight of retail. The decline of the retail world is probably related to the rise in Internet commerce and tightening wallets, but how does retail's...

New positive signals have been coming from London as of late. While the euro zone struggles with a potential Greek bankruptcy and signs of a recession, Britain once again seems to have escaped the problems threatening the rest Europe by following the examples of the US and several other major...

Dollar Tree (NASDAQ: DLTR) has officially become the darling dollar store stock on the Street. Over the course of 13-week’s, Dollar Tree shares have appreciated a not so skimpy 18%, and now trade at a not so cheap 19x forward earnings (lofty premium to peer group). On the other hand, the love...

Fashionable consumers love a designer bag, wallet or even a keychain at a somewhat affordable price. Products that are costly enough to show that the shopper spent the dough for the brand name, but not so expensive that it depletes the house payment savings, are key in this recession. This...

Admit it, the initial reads on the holiday season have you all excited about retail stocks. Perhaps a pen and paper is sitting at your side with names ready to be checked off as “owned” in the portfolio. To that, all I can say is to hold your horses, cowboy - don't get sucked into the orgasmic...

CNNMoney recently featured an article on Black Friday and how stores are opening earlier this year in anticipation of holiday shoppers. The article included the account of Anthony Hardwick, a part-time clerk at Target (NYSE: TGT) in Omaha, Neb., and how owing to the fact that he will have to...

As a result of the recent downtrend in the U.S. equity markets, some well-established retailers have lost significant portions of their market caps within the past four weeks. A well-known high end jewelry store chain, Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF), is one of these companies, as its shares have...