Looking At Starbucks (SBUX) Quality, Store By Store
It has been one year since 24/7 Wall St. looked at over 40 Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) from Texas to New York. Since then, the company has replaced its CEO with the company’s founder, Howard…
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Newest first · Page 362Chico’s FAS, Same Store Sales Still In Tank (CHS)
Many have been hoping that the bloodletting in the aisles of Chico’s FAS inc. (NYSE: CHS) is coming to an end. If that is the case, it isn’t evident in the numbers yet. The…
Old Navy Stinks Gap Same-Store Sales (GPS)
Just when it looked like Gap Inc. (NYSE: GPS) was starting to bottom out, it appears that was only a resting point. Thing go from bad to worse. Gap Inc. March Comparable same store…
Wal-Mart (WMT) Beats The Street
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) beat Wall St. expectations for same-store sales raising optimism that the world’s largest retailer is turning around and may post strong earnings for the quarter and the year. March same-store sales…
Nike’s Knight Sells $30 Million In Stock (NKE)
There were four separate filings today showing that co-founder and Chairman Philip Knight of Nike, Inc. (NYSE: NKE) filed to sell shares. The trade dates were listed as April 8, 2008. The four separate…
The $1,000 Hamburger
The high price of food is not an aberration. According to the World Bank crop prices are likely to stay above 2004 levels until 2015. Reuters writes the "World Bank said food prices are…
Bed Bath & Beyond, Bracing For Earnings (BBBY)
Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) is set to report earnings for its Feb-2008 fiscal fourth quarter today after the close. First Call has estimates at $0.65 EPS on $1.96 Billion in revenues…
Circuit City & Profits, Still More Questions Than Answers (CC, BBY)
Circuit City Stores, Inc. (NYSE: CC) announced something this morning that many thought could not be done. The company is posting a profit. It posted a profit of $4.85 million shares, or $0.03 EPS,…
Starbucks (SBUX): Individual Store Problems Hard To Fix
Perhaps Starbucks (SBUX) has managers who cover small regions of 100 stores each or "spies" from market research companies who visit a certain percent of all the coffee chain’s outlets each month. Management can’t…
Chasing A Top In Nike (NKE)
Nike Inc. (NYSE: NKE) is one of the ubiquitous brands of today’s world. As long as it keeps doing what it is doing now and as long as it keeps its endorsements strong, it’s…
Talbots, When Low Growth Is Good Enough (TLB)
Talbots (NYSE: TLB) is seeing shares surge today after the apparel maker and retailer unveiled its strategic plan for long-term growth and for productivity improvement. For starters, the company reaffirmed its guidance and it…
Has Wal-Mart (WMT) Lied To Us?
Most large corporations amplify the distrust that the common man has for them by making misstatements from time to time. It is Wal-Mart’s (WMT) turn in the gauntlet of public opinion. The world’s largest…
Can Best Buy Earnings Save Its Stock? (BBY, CC)
On Wednesday we’ll get to see earnings out of Best Buy Co. Inc. (NYSE: BBY). The estimates from First Call are $1.65 EPS on $13.18 billion in revenues. Next quarter estimates are $0.39 EPS…
Why Wall St. Hates Starbucks (SBUX)
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been a disappointment recently. Same-store sales in the US slowed over the last couple of quarters. The company pushed down its guidance. Founder Howard Schultz kicked out his CEO and…
J C Penney Slashes Guidance (JCP, DDS, M)
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) has just revised its sales and earnings guidance for the first quarter. Of course it is to the downside. The guidance reflects incremental weakness in the consumer spending…