J C Penney Closes Up 20%: A Look At 2014's Double-Digit Gains

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J C Penney Company Inc JCP closed up 20.27 percent on Wednesday, after the company provided a preliminary update Tuesday on its performance for the combined nine-week November and December period. The company reported comparable store sales growth of 3.7 percent year-over-year.

Deutsche Bank analyst Paul Trussell raised his price target to $9 from a previous $8.

J C Penney's stock has been characterized for being quite volatile over the years. Here is a look at other double-digit return days over past year.

May 16, 2014

Between May 15 -- when the stock closed at $8.37 per share -- and May 16, the price inched more than 16 percent, after the company reported smaller-than-expected losses. Following this spike, the stock continued to rise until late September. After surpassing $11 per share, it began to fall and plunged to prices barely above $7 in early October.

February 27, 2014

On February 27, the stock gained more than 25 percent, closing at $7.47, up from $5.96 on February 26. The stock continued to climb in the following days to prices just shy of $9 and was pretty much flat in the months that followed, except for a few days in April, when it fell to $7.25 before recuperating.

Where Is The Stock Going?

Trussell sees the stock going up to $9 per share over the next 12 months. However, he "maintained a Hold rating due to same-store sales likely slowing in 2015, tough compares ahead and no indication of the company taking steps to monetize real-estate assets in the near–term."

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