Circuit City Strike Wall St. As Bad

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By Douglas A. McIntyre Published

Circuit City (CC) lost money last quarter. The company closed stores, and, at those open a year, sales were poor.

Revenue for the quarter ending Feb 28 were flat at $3.9 billion. Earnings from continuing operations dropped from $234 million in the quarter a year ago to $15 million in the most recent quarter. The net was negative due to restructuring costs.

On the bright side web sales grew 50% to $1 billion.

The company forecast a net sales increase of 5% to 8% for the next fiscal.

CC shares are already down about 4% this year. And, prior to the open, they are off 3.3% to $17.68, near the company’s 52-week low.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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