Valuation Reality Check In Whole Foods (WFM, KR, SWY)
Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) may have posted a 33% gain to earnings and it may still have a lot of growth ahead of it. The reality is that the company is running…
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Avon’s (NYSE: AVP) vice chairman, Charles Cramb, was fired as the federal government examines whether the company violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. He may have known about bribes Avon made outside the U.S. The…
In-Store Cellphone E-Comerce Use Rockets, Threatens Retailers
Bricks-and-mortar stores have been concerned for some time that their shoppers would come to their stores, find products, and then go online to get the best prices. Store, in essence, has started to become…
Starbucks Valuation Catching Up To Share Price After Earnings (SBUX, GMCR)
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is out with earnings. Some of the highlights are a record 11% earnings per share gain to $0.50 EPS on a 16% gain in sales to $3.435 billion; Thomson Reuters…
Full 360-Degree Starbucks Earnings Preview (SBUX, GMCR, CBOU, PEET)
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) is set to report earnings after the close. As this one hit all-time highs in recent trading days, it would seem as though the broader opinion is that no real…
McDonald’s Shows What Continued Earnings Success Looks Like (MCD)
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE: MCD) has managed to beat earnings again. The Golden Arches sell fast food in good times and bad. Earnings were $1.33 EPS on a near 10% revenue gain to $ 6.82…
An Awful Start for JCPenney’s New CEO
Former Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) retail chief Ron Johnson, hired to achieve a turnaround at JCPenney (NYSE: JCP), is off to a terrible start. The wobbly department store company may not recover for a long…
Walmart’s E-commerce Woes Cannot Be Solved by a New Online CEO
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) added a new CEO to oversee its e-commerce operations. The general perception is that this business should be more competitive with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN). That will be hard to accomplish in the shadow…
Retail Sales Growth Begins to Falter
The National Retail Federation could hardly have been more optimistic over the course of the holiday season. It raised its forecasts for November and December substantially in early December. The thrill has faded, though. The…
Portraying the CEO Departure as a Good Thing at Urban Outfitters (URBN)
Imagine this… The CEO departure at Urban Outfitters, Inc. (NASDAQ: URBN) may actually be a positive development for the company. Stern Agee’s Margaret Whitfield and Tom Nikic maintained a Neutral rating on Urban Outfitters and…
Starbucks Raises Prices Because It Can
It has been hard for most companies with consumer customers to raise prices in the past three years. The economy has been so weak and personal income has not moved higher. An exception to…
The Rich Continue to Give — A Little
The list of people who gave gifts of over $1 million includes 513 for 2011, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy. That may not seem like many unless it is put in the context of…
Sears Store Closings In High Unemployment Areas
Add to the problems of unemployment that it will be harder for the jobless to shop at Sears and KMart. A list of 79 locations that will be shuttered by Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) was released yesterday. The total number will…
Could Sears Be Broken Up?
What Eddie Lampert put together in 2005 could be broken into pieces again, and that might be the only realistic way to “fix” Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD). Lampert engineered a merger of Sears and…
Sears Will Not Close Enough Stores
The numbers do not add up. Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has over 4,000 full-line and specialty stores. Same-store sales for the eight weeks that ended December 25 were down 5.2%. That figure represents a…