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Barron's Picks And Pans: Burlington Stores, Nike, Occidental Petroleum, Uber And More
Sunday, May 5, 2019 - 2:25pm | 525This weekend's Barron's cover story examines stocks that will benefit from increasing spending by millennials. Other featured articles focus on what suppliers say about Apple and possible outcomes to a bidding war. Also, the prospects for an off-price retailer and a highly anticipated IPO...
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Will Alibaba And Home Depot Bring Good News To Retail Earnings Season?
Sunday, August 13, 2017 - 5:28pm | 745More of the big retailers are on deck to report their most recent quarterly results this week. Wall Street is braced for mixed results from the troubled sector again this week. Yet two leading specialty retailers could buck the trend of low expectations. The big-box stores and the major...
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Retail Earnings Expectations: Costco And Lowe's
Monday, May 22, 2017 - 8:58am | 616Reports from two big-box retailers will be among earnings highlights this week. Both of them are considered to be less affected by big e-commerce. Wall Street analysts expect good showings from each of them. The parade of big retailers sharing their latest quarterly results continues. While so...
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Can JD.Com And Staples Overcome Low Earnings Expectations?
Sunday, February 28, 2016 - 7:49pm | 602Two very different specialty retailers are expected to report their fourth-quarter results this week. Wall Street analysts are looking for declining earnings for each of them. Several other retailers are expected to report earnings growth this week. The parade of quarterly results from the big...
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Wall Street Is Hungry For Costco, Kroger Earnings
Sunday, February 28, 2016 - 7:40pm | 577Two specialty retailers are expected to report their latest quarterly results this week. Consensus forecasts call for modest earnings growth from both companies. But only one of them has exceeded expectations in the past few quarters. The parade of quarterly results from the big retailers begins...
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Goldman Sachs On Burlington Stores: Wait For Pullback, Recent Outperformance Leaves Limited Upside
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 1:06pm | 173Stephen Grambling of Goldman Sachs downgraded shares of Burlington Stores Inc (NASDAQ: BURL) on Wednesday as recent outperformance leaves limited upside to the analyst's $46 price target. “Burlington Stores still has a meaningful opportunity to improve sales productivity, margins and...
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3 Retailers For A Potentially Robust Holiday Season
Friday, October 10, 2014 - 10:53am | 553The holiday season is about to kick off, and the estimates for this year's sales are huge. In late September, Deloitte LLP forecast holiday sales to increase by 4.5 percent this year, well above the 2.8 percent in 2013. On Tuesday, the National Retail Federation estimated holiday sales...
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6 Sure Signs The Holiday Shopping Season Is Already Here
Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 1:42pm | 957Autumn officially arrived at 10:29 p.m. ET September 22. Just ahead of that, the 2014 holiday shopping season began. For those who missed the signs, here are six sure indicators, along with the retailers that introduced them, offering proof positive that the holidays have arrived. 1....