Karen Short

After reporting strong Q3 earnings before market open Tuesday, investors flocked to Dollar Tree, Inc (NASDAQ: DLTR). Looking past the positive results, Barclays analyst Karen Short advised investors to remain cautious. She maintains an Equal-Weight rating and $84 price target on the stock while...

Shares of Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) have gained about 9 percent since November 4, when Bloomberg reported one of the company’s top 10 shareholders had met with potential activist investors to discuss making “sweeping changes” to the organic grocery chain, including...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) reported an earnings beat for its fiscal third quarter of 2017. Although comps narrowly missed expectations, they “may have beat had it not been for unusually warm weather which hurt apparel and other sales,” Barclays’ Karen Short said in a report...

Contrary to investor fears, Visa Inc (NYSE: V)'s co-branded card is off to a strong start at Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST), which reported fourth quarter EPS of $1.77, $0.03/$0.04 higher than the Barclays/Consensus estimates of $1.74/$1.73 due to a lower than expected tax rate. On its...

Barclays initiated coverage of the food and staples retailing industry with a Neutral view and categorized the 19 stocks in their coverage into four groups, namely: "growth stars, stable staples, in transition and attempting to reinvest." In a note released Thursday, the firm said it is...

Barclays initiated the American food and staples retailing sector at Neutral. The brokerage cited negative sentiments on the sector, which dragged down several companies shares in the year-to-date period. Significantly, SPDR S&P Retail (ETF) (NYSE: XRT), which tracks the retailing stocks,...

Close on the heels of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) closing its Jet.com acquisition, Barclays upgraded the biggest retailer stocks from Equal Weight to an Overweight rating and boosted the price objective from $70 to $87. This implies a growth potential of about 20 percent. The brokerage...

When it comes to pizza, Deutsche Bank analyst Karen Short thinks Wall Street is mostly overlooking one top stock with a compelling risk/reward balance. While names like Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) and Papa John’s Int’l, Inc. (NASDAQ: PZZA) get much more coverage, Short...

Deutsche Bank’s Karen Short maintained a Buy rating on Sprouts Farmers Market Inc (NASDAQ: SFM), while raising the price target from $32 to $35. Almost “Bulletproof” Terming the company “one of the best growth stories in retail,” Short mentioned that a recent...

Deutsche Bank’s Karen Short downgraded the rating for Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG) from Hold to Sell, while maintaining the price target at $400. He mentioned that the share price already seems to price in Chipotle's recovery, which continues to be “questionable....

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE: CMG)’s stock has been hit hard by an E. coli outbreak at the company’s restaurants in recent months. While there’s no question that an outbreak like this one is bad news for any restaurant business, the numbers show that Chipotle’s stock...