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Overnight Trade: New York & Co.

Posted by admin On March - 18 - 2010

The Oxen Group submits:

Today, we are going back into the retail sector again to look to make some money. Yesterday, retail was good to us with a pick up of Rue21 Inc. (RUE). Our Buy Pick of the Day was good for 3%. Today, the company reported a 68% increase in profit and beat EPS estimates by 20%.

Overnight Trade of the Day: New York & Co. Inc. (NWY)

Analysis: Retail has been very solid with earnings this quarter. The reflections of holiday shopping’s quarter have been much better than analysts were expecting across the board. This has attracted me to playing a number of retail companies over the past month. For today’s Overnight Trade, we are looking to New York & Co. Inc. (NWY), which is a specialty retailer that features strictly women’s clothing, in the vein of casual to work-oriented fashions. It is in the non-upscale but not-cheap area – in line with Ann Taylor (ANN) and Gap (GPS).


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A.C. Moore Arts & Crafts, Inc. (ACMR)

Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

March 17, 2010 8:30 pm ET


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Schiff Nutrition International, Inc. (WNI)

F3Q10 (Qtr End 02/28/10) Earnings Call Transcript


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Research Recap submits:

Analysts are more bullish on Kraft Foods (KFT) since its acquisition of Cadbury.

Morgan Stanley resumed coverage of Kraft Foods Inc. with an overweight rating on Mar. 15 Analyst Vincent Andrews said the firm had a $32 price target on the shares. (Business Week)


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Sara Lee: Earnings Scorecard

Posted by admin On March - 18 - 2010

Zacks.com submits:

Last month, Sara Lee Corp. (SLE) reported strong results for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. Earnings for the quarter were $0.36 compared to $0.20 during the same period of fiscal 2009. Earnings were well above the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.23.

Further, the company reported strong operating income growth for the second quarter of fiscal 2010. The growth was driven by significant improvement in operating income across all segments and particularly in the North American Retail and International Beverage business segments, mainly due to lower corporate expenses. Therefore, the company raised its full year EPS guidance to a range of $1.00 to $1.05 per share compared to a range of 91 cents to 95 cents mentioned earlier.


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ETF Spotlight: SPDR S&P Retail

Posted by admin On March - 18 - 2010

tom lydonTom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits:

ETF Spotlight on SPDR S&P Retail (XRT), part of a weekly series.

Assets: $322 million


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Is It Time to Play GameStop?

Posted by admin On March - 18 - 2010

MoneyMasters submits:

Sometimes, I look at a stock’s valuations and think, “This is too good to be true.”
At $19.50 a share, GameStop (GME) is trading at 8.6 times fiscal 2010 earnings and around 7.5 times fiscal 2011 expected earnings. According to Ford Equity Research, GME’s normal P/E ratio is around 10.8, which is less than half of its own five year average normal P/E.
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The consensus estimate projects 12% average annual earnings growth over the next five years. Considering it is trading at 7.5 times forward earnings, GME has a price-to-earnings-to-growth ((PEG)) ratio of just 0.6.
Its balance sheet is also healthy. At the end of Q3, it had just $447 million in debt, which is just 8.8% of total assets.
GameStop is the world’s largest videogame retail chain with 6,457 stores in 17 countries. It sells gaming hardware including Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo’s (NTDOY.PK) Wii and DS; videogames; and related accessories and peripherals. It also allows consumers to trade in their old videogames and systems for newer products.
There are some significant risk considerations including deterioration in discretionary spending. This was partly to blame when management cut fiscal 2009 earnings per share guidance to $2.23-2.27, down from prior guidance calling for $2.45-2.63. GME also faces intensifying competition from the likes of Wal-Mart (WMT), Best Buy (BBY), and Amazon.com (AMZN). In fact, last month GME announced the sudden departure of their Chief Financial Officer, who took a job at Wal-Mart. You can bet she wasn’t hired as a greeter.
Despite these risks, low valuations make for an extremely attractive risk/reward tradeoff. This tradeoff must be attractive if speculators were willing to believe rumors that GME was the subject of a takeover bid.
Is this too good to be true? Maybe we’ll find out tomorrow. GME announces its fiscal Q4 2010 financial results tomorrow morning (see transcript here upon availability).
Disclosure: No positions


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NIKE, Inc. (NKE)

F3Q10 (Qtr End 02/28/10) Earnings Call Transcript

March 17, 2010, 5:00 pm ET


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Bullish Traders Eat Up Kellogg Calls

Posted by admin On March - 18 - 2010

optionMONSTER submits:

By Mike Yamamoto

Kellogg (K) is drawing upside option activity as the food company’s shares trade in an increasingly narrow range.
K ChartoptionMONSTER’s Heat Seeker system showed that 2,857 April 55 calls changed hands in a strong buying pattern, most of them going for $0.20. The trading dwarfed both the open interest of 261 contracts and the average call volume of 18 per day at that strike. Overall calls at all Kellogg strikes outnumbered puts by more than 4 to 1.


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Weekly Retail Sales Continue to Show Strength

Posted by admin On March - 17 - 2010

RetailSails submits:

Though much of the East Coast was again pounded by severe storms this past weekend, warmer temperatures across much of the country drove strong sales in the early-to-middle part of the week, which helped offset the weekend softness. Department and Apparel stores saw significantly higher traffic compared to last year, as mild temperatures led to strong demand for spring merchandise.

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