The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations on Friday morning include American Express, Citigroup, First Solar, Gap, HP Enterprise, UPS and Wells Fargo.
Some huge retail brands are surprisingly missing from the top 100 2016 Brand Loyalty survey results.
After years of shuttering stores, Banana Republic may run out of runway and may need to find a profitable alternative to stores. That may press it to survive online.
Douglas A. McIntyre The top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen on Friday morning include Advanced Micro Devices, Cliffs Natural Resources, Gap, KLA-Tencor, Regions Financial, Tyson Foods and Wal-Mart.
If the latest Retail Metrics estimate comes true, September marks the sixth month out of the first nine of the year in which same-store sales have declined.
Gap reported its fiscal second-quarter financial results after the markets closed on Thursday, but what really pulled its shares down was a less than favorable outlook.
Chris Lange Gap saw muted growth in its brands in its July comparable sales report. The question is how this will factor into the coming earnings report.
Chris Lange The trouble is relentless across the brick-and-mortar retail world. Malls are closing or downsizing. At least six large retailers will have to merge, almost certainly in some combination with one another.
The list of layoffs by traditional retailers stretches ever longer. Almost every company blames e-commerce, which indirectly means Amazon.com.
After markets closed Monday, The Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) reported same-store sales numbers for the month of July and for the company’s second fiscal quarter. Neither number was good news for the…
Paul Ausick Retailers announced July U.S. same-store sales figures on Thursday morning. Research firm Retail Metrics expects a year-over-year decrease of 1.7% for the month, compared with its prior estimate for a drop of…
Since its release, Nintendo’s Pokémon Go has been downloaded by Americans tens of millions of times and is set to surpass the success of other mobile games by any number of metrics.…
Jefferies notes how expensive consumer staples had gotten relative to consumer discretionary and suggests that in the past such disparities have led to a reversion, where discretionary subsequently outperformed staples.
If there was a pleasant surprise in retail last week, it was Thursday's announcement from Gap that the company had posted a same-store sales increase in June.
Paul Ausick Gap has lost a great deal of relevance among consumers. Nothing it has done recently offers any evidence the trend will reverse.
Douglas A. McIntyre 
