Brown Shoe Company, Inc.

• Market Moving Upgrades Worth Noting Last Week

  By Brian Nichols - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: BWS, GRPN, NFLX

  Stocks can be pushed higher or lower as analysts provide their outlooks. These calls are not enough to base an investment on, but should be considered as part of your research. Therefore, I am assessing a few of Thursday’s top calls, and determining if each was a good call.

  Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN)

  When it comes to technology, there is one analyst that I take more seriously than the others, and that more »

• Nike Runs Great in 2013

  By Josef Ray Dagatan - January 3, 2013 | Tickers: ADDYY, BWS, NKE

  Nike (NYSE: NKE) came out with great news as its second quarter fiscal 2013 report reflects an EPS of $1.14, higher than last year’s closing profit of $1.03 and surpassing the initial consensus estimate of only $1.00 EPS for this quarter. An 11% growth following every passing quarter boasts a consistent and gradual increase in revenue and market share for existing stockholders.

  A global groundbreaker in more »

• Boring Name, Interesting Restructuring

  By C. Russell - July 11, 2012 | Tickers: BWS, FL, SCVL, FINL

  Brown Shoe (NYSE: BWS) is a small-cap retailer and wholesaler of shoes. Despite being listed since at least the late 1970s, at least, Brown Shoe is still trading at roughly the same level as it was in the early 1980s. It has three divisions: Famous Footwear a 1,000+ shoe retailer with a growing online presence, Speciality Retail which has a larger online presence as well as 234 stores under more »

• Brown Shoes Not Held Back by Restructuring

  By Erin McBride - May 31, 2012 | Tickers: BWS, FL, NKE

  While other shoe manufacturers are dealing with large lawsuits regarding "toning shoes," Brown Shoe Company (NYSE: BWS) has been fighting battles of its own- and winning.

  At a time when expectations had been for the company to suffer a loss due to restructuring, major changes, and acquisitions, it instead surprised analysts with a sales increase.

  The company has undergone a restructuring in the Famous Footwear retail chain, opened 11 new more »

• These Shoes Were Made for Walking (if you want to lose weight)

  By Erin McBride - May 22, 2012 | Tickers: BWS, NKE, SKX

  My well-worn and well-loved Avia toning shoes.

   

  Because either the U.S. government thinks Americans can't decipher between fact and reality TV, or because they think Skechers (NYSE: SKX) intended to fool women into thinking they could look like a reality TV star with a pair of shoes, (or worse, because Americans are that dense), Skechers has agreed to pay out $50 million in settlements.

  Personally, I think this more »