holiday shopping season

The holiday shopping season may be the biggest time of year for retailers, but tax season is critical for tax services companies H & R Block Inc (NYSE: HRB), Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) and Liberty Tax Inc (NASDAQ: TAX). Here’s a look at how all three stocks stack up ahead of this year...

Shares of Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT), known for its Barbie brand of toys, plunged more than 15 percent after a “surprise” fourth-quarter EPS miss due to the late arrival of Christmas retail selling season. Investors were taken by surprise with the toy maker announcing the year’s...

“Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT)'s turnaround story has lost momentum as it pushed up its 4Q earnings release and last night revealed disappointing year-end results,” MKM Partners’ Eric Handler said in a note. The analyst downgraded the rating on the company from Buy to Neutral, while...

Coming off a disappointing holiday season, Deutsche Bank is throwing in the towel, shoes and handbags on Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M). At time of writing, shares were plummeting over 14 percent on Thursday. Macy’s announced it would be closing 68 stores and cutting over 10,000 jobs following a...

Macy's Inc (NYSE: M)'s stock plunged around 15 percent on Thursday and is within striking distance of its 52-week low of $29.94. Investors and traders heavily sold the stock after the company announced disappointing holiday sales numbers and news that it will close another 100 stores. Disappointing...

It hasn’t been a happy New Year for shareholders of some of America’s top brick-and-mortar retailers. Macy’s Inc (NYSE: M) shares were down more than 10 percent in pre-market trading after the company reported lower-than-expected November and December comparable sales of -2.1...

The toy story has become engrossing, with estimates predicting a healthy 6.5 percent growth for the toy industry. NPD estimates toy sales growth of 6.5 percent for the year after an estimated 6 percent growth from January through September 2016. Over the years, the toy industry has turned in some...

Now that the holiday shopping season is winding down, the Morgan Stanley sales team has come up with a new shopping list of small- and mid-cap (SMID) stocks for traders to buy in the final days of 2016. To Buy Here’s a rundown of all the companies on Morgan Stanley’s buy list. Acushnet...

The rise of e-commerce has led to brand new online shopping holidays such as Cyber Monday and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Prime Day. However, more online order deliveries mean more shipping returns. United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS) has embraced the flood of holiday shipping...

Gian Fulgoni, the co-founder and CEO of COMSCORE, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR) was a guest on CNBC Tuesday morning to share some of the analytics and data the firm has collected so far within the e-commerce space. Fulgoni stated he is pretty confident that by the end of the holiday shopping season, total e-...

It’s finally here. Christmas and Hanukkah are just days away in what has been a tumultuous year for many, strife with economic volatility and negative sentiments. However, for the first time in millennials’ lifetimes, Christmas and Hanukkah overlap. Serendipitously, perhaps, in a...

Online retail juggernaut Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) may be hitting the jackpot this holiday season, as it whips up shopper frenzy with novel and unparalleled offerings. With Amazon Prime, the company has found so much success it decided to have an Amazon Prime Day , beginning in 2015. The...

Wedbush said channel checks show Kate Spade & Co (NYSE: KATE) remains the top performer in the handbag sales this holiday season despite a lukewarm response for its “Miss Piggy” and “Imagination Monster” collections. 'Relatively Sluggish' Handbag Space That said, the...

Quarterly reports from a pair of leading retailers are due this week. Wall Street analysts have forecast shrinking earnings from both of them. One of them has fallen short of earnings expectations in recent quarters. The focus now is on the holiday shopping season, a time when many retailers grow...

Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY) has continued its push to make 2016 the year of millennial nostalgia by releasing its NES Classic Edition ahead of the holiday shopping season. The NES Classic is a miniature replica of Nintendo’s popular Nintendo Entertainment System that originally came...