Ascena Retail Group
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A Seductive Company Trouncing the Overall Market
By Ryan Guenette - May 5, 2013 | Tickers: ANN, ASNA, CHS, LTD, WTSL
One of the leading specialty retailers of the world, L Brands Incorporated (NYSE: LTD) has under performed the overall market so far in 2013, rising only 8.73%. L Brands is a specialty retailer of women’s intimate and other apparel, beauty and personal care products and accessories. The company’s brand portfolio includes Victoria’s Secret, Victoria’s Secret PINK, Bath & Body Works, La Senza, and Henri Bendel. Currently more »
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A Fast-Growing, Undervalued Fashion Retailer
By Daniel James - March 22, 2013 | Tickers: ASNA, CATO, TJX
It appears American retail is back. Despite a flurry of economic factors such that should, in theory, limit US consumers’ ability to spend money, retail figures have been very strong as of late, with sales increasing by 1.1% in February and beating analyst expectations. Most analysts are focusing on the larger chains such as TJX as a way to get in on retail growth. However, one small and relatively more »
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This Stock Might be a Good Investment for the Next Season
By Himanshu Poddar - March 11, 2013 | Tickers: ANN, ASNA, LTD
There seems to be no end to sufferings. Each phase has its own set of problems for the retail industry. Because of the Euro crisis people were already budget conscious with little willingness to spend when Hurricane Sandy and higher taxes added to the woes. This led to even more difficult time for retailers, especially specialty retailers, leading to a weak holiday season.
However, there have been instances where some more »
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A Stock for the Stoic Investor
By Jonathan Lim - February 1, 2013 | Tickers: ASNA, FRAN, CATO, TJX
Mr. Market favors the stoic investor, though he dares not admit it. In fact, he tries to mask this preference, allowing the emotional investor to triumph in the short term. But should the latter be so foolish (not to be confused with Foolish) as to overestimate the duration of his or her lucky streak, there goes all the gains.
The real strength of a dispassionate approach lies in the ability more »
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This Retailer Clamors for Its Part of Ecommerce Pie
By Gerelyn Terzo - January 15, 2013 | Tickers: ASNA, TJX, URBN
December 2012 was good to The TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX). The company's comparable store sales climbed 6% higher versus the year ago month, and it was on top of extremely strong comparisons. With its success being driven by its brick-and-mortar store locations coupled with the recent addition of an online retailer to its portfolio of companies, this stock has nowhere to go but higher.
Retail Information Systems News performed more »
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Living Luxe and Large
By AnnaLisa Kraft - October 17, 2012 | Tickers: ASNA, HOTT, HSNI
Mad Men’s Christina Hendricks (she plays the ad agency’s Rubenesque, redhaired office manager) bristles at the term “full-figured.” Queen Latifah thinks "plus-size" is a dirty word. So should I use the term “big and beautiful” or “voluptuous” to describe these three stocks that offer voluptuous ladies fashionable garments? Queen Latifah favors the term curvaceous.
Ascena Retail Group (NASDAQ: ASNA), HotTopic, and HSN (NASDAQ: HSNI) are three companies offering more »
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Don’t Let Europe’s Woes Cause You to Second Guess This Cheap Retailer
By Matthew DiLallo - October 10, 2012 | Tickers: ANF, ARO, ASNA, GES, BKE
For the most part I like to follow Peter Lynch’s philosophy of buying what I know. It doesn’t work on every occasion but it’s served me well over the years. One sector that I’ve found I have difficulty investing in is retail, especially anything involving fashion. Clothes just don’t interest me and I’m about the farthest thing from a fashonista as you’ll find more »
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Is This Retailer a Good Buy?
By Himanshu Poddar - August 25, 2012 | Tickers: ANN, ASNA, LTD
In an uncertain economy with budget conscious customers, retailers, especially specialty retailers, are finding it difficult to manage the ever increasing cost inflation and are juggling with the problem of raising product prices and falling volumes. Increasing commodity prices have become a major roadblock for almost all the retailers. But a specialty retailer for women has managed to work on this universal problem.
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The Future is Bright
By Himanshu Poddar - June 6, 2012 | Tickers: AEO, ASNA, CHRS
While most retailers are posting great results this quarter, making the investors go gaga over the sector and giving an impression that the retailers are unaffected by the economic headwinds, here is a women's apparel retailer which has managed to buck the trend. Ascena Retail Group (NASDAQ: ASNA) is a specialty retailer which posted its third quarter results recently, and missed the Street’s expectations.
Snapshot of the quarter more »
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The Good and the Bad for Talbots: What about the Ugly?
By Rita Chattaraj - May 29, 2012 | Tickers: ASNA, KSS, RUE, TLB
On Friday, the stocks of Massachusetts-based retailer Talbots (NYSE: TLB) took a hit as the company offered strong bad news and relatively weaker good news. The troubled retailer, which was in talks with a private equity firm Sycamore Partners for getting acquired, announced that the deal was off and as an instant reaction of Wall Street, the stock price plunged 41%. Even the company’s improved fiscal 2012 first quarter more »