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- Citi Trends: Downward Trend Continues
- Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News
- Retail Buys Can Be Found in This Market
- Lululemon Makes Other Hot Clothing IPOs Look Cheap
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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Oil price is going up that scares the consumers but not the government. In fact timely government inventory drop serves as catalyst to price increase. There is no cry from the goverment to control or to do some thing. After reading David Baldacci's and Clive Cussler's fiction stories on government, my question is "is there any connection."? Our scientist and researchers those who put man on the moon are capable producing quick results considering hydrogen and bio fuels. In fact pwerful hydrogen technology was develpoed by private investor in late seventies and is readily available. Only we need money and interest of our goverment. Is oil lobbyist over powering consumers cry? ReplyEli Hoffmann
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Thanks Ruth, I'm really glad you find the earnings summaries useful.We're going to continue doing them this way, but we've got something else in store too. Hint: Keep an eye on our home page next week. Reply
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
Eli, just want to let you know how much I like your new method of reporting the earnings results in Wall Street Breakfast. I find it the most useable earnings reporting that I've seen online. Love the red and green highlights; that you split the earnings into after close and before open; and how concisely the list presents a large amount of info.Thank you!!
Ruth
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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
The word is "gouging", the Bush regime drops oil in inventory to make more available in U.S. and lower cost (knowing its not going lower), big money says, "price of oil rises because inventories are down", raise inventory levels, and big money says "lack of fuel for consumers" (Chicken or the egg theory). The real terrorist act is still going on in the U.S. and Washington. ReplyWall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
"IEA sees crude crunch". You should quote the source and say that it is an unconfirmed wild assumption about the results of a just started study, full of uncertainties, about the supply situation 10 years from now. Besides supply, nobody knows what oil demand will be in 10 years, with all kind of conservation measures and alternatives beeing developed.There are already enough false statements fuelling the speculation. You should not add to that. Reply
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
I remember the Carter - era lines at gas stations, and the NO GAS signs too.... and the price controls that followed and made things worse.Now I have experienced some long lines like that at the COSTCO discount gas pump. More people are gassing there to get a few cents off the price of gas at their neighborhood station, making for a much longer wait, much longer lines at COSTCO out in Puget Sound's Kitsap Peninsula. We've been gassing there for years, and breezed through until this month. Reply
Schweitzer
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
And still, there are no Carter-era type lines at the gas stations.However, there are some in Congress who are looking for ways to return to that condition.
Vote early and often (changing each time) in November. Reply
Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [view article]
It's going to be a crude awakening... ReplyRetail Buys Can Be Found in This Market [view article]
CTRN is at 20x EPS and their free cash flow has been consistently negative, which calls into question their reported profitability. I don't understand why anyone would buy this stock at the current level. I can't see it worth more than $12. ReplyRetail Buys Can Be Found in This Market [view article]
DECK didn't report "blow out" numbers, it beat by a penny after estimates were lowered, come on.And, please, their earnings have been driven in the past by very trendy boots that teens and young women bought as a fashion statement, that has a short shelf life in retail. They are up against Sketchers with weak branding and sales in Tevas this summer.
We are in a discretionary retail consumer slow-down. It's very unlikely DECK is going to get the fall orders it had in the past. Reply
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Is this a buy or a sell? Replyla
Lululemon Makes Other Hot Clothing IPOs Look Cheap [view article]
Jim Glazen is a pumper dumper, anything this guy pumps is destined for the garbage bin, Jim is a pile of junk. ReplyLululemon Makes Other Hot Clothing IPOs Look Cheap [view article]
Fundamentals don't matter as much as psychology for Lululemon at this point. The 25% comps and "beating the street" earnings estimates will be enough to continue to propel the stock higher. The higher it goes, the more shorts it attracts and the more is continues to inexplicably power higher.It will eventually crash but not before the valuation gets ultra irrational and the stock destroys thousands of short sellers. That's how it always works for hyper growth momo stocks.
Is $4.5 billion market cap reasonable for a piece of junk plastic clog shoe maker?
The stock market is a game of exploiting hopes and dreams. Most companies and their management teams are piles of junk. Reply
Lululemon Makes Other Hot Clothing IPOs Look Cheap [view article]
Jim - you might end up being right but the current price is certainly pricing in optimistic projections (like yours).A few of elements of your projections don't agree with what management is saying themselves:
1. Your 700 Intl plus 300 NA stores = 1000 or 950 more than today. Over 8 years to 2015 thats 119/year. But they are expecting to do 'just' 25 this year and up to 35 next. Their store opening process is fairly time and effort intensive as they put more effort into training staff and becoming active in the local fitness community. How well does that scale? I think its poses some risk now at 25 - 35 stores a year since they have only ever done 14 in a single year before now.
2. They have also said they would go international via JV so not all Int'l expansion would accrue to lulu shareholders.
3. They are targeting a 20% operating margin so after 35% tax that is more like 13% net. So even on 2.5B, your profit is $325. Reply
Lululemon Makes Other Hot Clothing IPOs Look Cheap [view article]
Lulu up 13% today. lmfao!! maybe you ought to change your name to dumbguystocks.com Reply