The next round of earnings officially kicks off next week with Alcoa Inc. (NYSE: AA) first out of the blocks on Monday. We’re taking advantage of the occasion to preview some developments in a…
Retail stores are reporting December sales today and the news is, at best mixed. Retailers reporting already include Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT), Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (NYSE: BJ), Macy’s…
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been known for changing and revolutionizing an industry. The company changed everything about coffee, from price to the climate of drinking coffee to ultimately making coffee into a destination…
Groupon has become rather well known for its web ads calling for local discounts for those who join. A possible buyout from Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG), which Groupon ultimately rejected, brought it even further…
The Conference Board released its reading of Consumer Confidence was above the red-line, albeit a bit less than expected. The reading fell to 52.5 for December, down from a revised 54.3 reading in November…
On its second-quarter earnings report, Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) posted EPS of $0.94 on revenue of $4.84 billion. Both numbers exceeded expectations — analysts were expecting EPS of $0.88 on revenue of $4.81 billion.…
Rite Aid Corp. (NYSE: RAD) is getting clipped this morning after its quarterly earnings report. As you have grown accustomed to, the ‘earnings report’ is really a loss report. The report starts out with…
Helen of Troy Limited (NASDAQ: HELE) is an unknown stock to many investors, but that appears to be changing after what most investors would skim over as news too small to matter. A merger…
Retailers are posting their November sales figures this morning, and the overall picture is looking bright. Shoppers are headed back to stores of every kind. Big-box retailer BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc. (NYSE: BJ) posted…
Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is presenting at the Morgan Stanley Global Consumer & Retail Conference in New York. An SEC filing shows that Chairman & CEO Louis Camilleri is reaffirming last month’s…
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is making another acquisition to move into specialty retail areas, this time in the realm of babycare products. Jeff Bezos and friends are acquiring a company called Quidsi, Inc., which…
Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is showing that smoking is still cool, at least as far as earnings are concerned. The international tobacco giant reported adjusted earnings of $1.00 EPS for 7% earnings…
Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is out with mixed earnings. Third quarter earnings rose 9% to $2.06 billion, while earnings on a per share basis rose to $0.88 EPS from $0.81 EPS a year ago. …
This week will mark some key retail sales data for the month of September-2010 in same-store-sales. So far we are seeing some positive trends from many of the retailers and there are some expected…
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) is getting a new CFO. The company has an SEC filing that shows that Thomas M. Schoewe will retire on November 30 as executive vice president and chief financial…