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  • 3 Top Consumer Companies: Earnings Review

    By Federico Zaldua - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: DANOY.PK, LRLCY.PK, NSRGY

    If you are a regular reader of my blog, you already know that I have a strong preference for consumer goods companies (CGCs). The reason is clear: CGCs not only have unmatched free cash flow (FCF) generation capabilities but also, those cash flows are stable and protected by strong barriers to entry. In this article I will review the results posted by three of the most relevant CGCs in the more »

  • Is This Cosmetics Company Attractive After a 1,000% Gain?

    By Anh HOANG - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: AVP, LRLCY.PK, REV

    Shareholders of Revlon (NYSE: REV) must be quite happy, as its share price just shot up by more than 50%, from around $15 per share to more than $22.60 per share since the beginning of the year. If investors grabbed Revlon’s shares at the bottom of 2009 at $2.60 per share, they would have seen a gain of 1,000% within just four years. Is Revlon a more »

  • Procter & Gamble Under Serious Pressure

    By Ashit Gulati - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: LRLCY.PK, PG, UL

    Traditionally, P&G (NYSE: PG) has been a leading player, and the company to beat in the beauty and hair products category. The company primarily offers a large variety of shampoos, creams and fragrances. It consists of an impressive portfolio of brands and some of the most popular ones under P&G are Olay and Pantene. These brands are front runners in their respective categories, and pull in large volumes more »

  • A $25 Billion Cap Stock To Put A Smile On Your Face

    By Declan Fallon - February 28, 2013 | Tickers: AVP, LRLCY.PK, PG, EL

    Estee Lauder (NYSE: EL) recently released earnings, which were welcomed by investors and managed to push the stock to new highs, only for prices to subsequently consolidate into its prior price range just below $64. In this state, the stock is likely off the radar of many, but this is also great time to be looking at it from an investment stand point.

    What's to Like?

    While a slowdown more »

  • Why this Costmetic Company Should Accept its Fate

    By Palwasha Saaim - December 17, 2012 | Tickers: AVP, LRLCY.PK, REV, EL, TUP

    Avon Products (NYSE: AVP), the largest direct-selling cosmetics manufacturer in the US, made headlines again with more bad news. 2012 has been a year of bad omens for the company--declining sales, hiking costs, bribery investigations, faltering interest of active representatives, quarter after quarter of earnings misses, executives resigning, the CEO stepping down, and now structural changes under the new leadership.

    The company has announced that it will be exiting two more »

  • Avon Faces the Winds of Change

    By Gargi Banerjee - October 11, 2012 | Tickers: AVP, LRLCY.PK, REV

    The only thing constant about life is change. The recent shift of management at beauty products seller Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) bears testimony to that very fact. The company will start a new chapter as the era of the popular Andrea Jung, former CEO, present executive chairman and member of the board in the company steps down on December 31 to stay on as a senior advisor.  Although, the decision more »

  • Home and Fashion Outperform Makeup Sales for Avon! Huh

    By Tedra DeSue - August 6, 2012 | Tickers: AVP, LRLCY.PK, REV, EL

    A cosmetics company whose home and fashion division outperforms its makeup division! This may seem like some kind of anomaly, but that was exactly the case with Avon Products (NYSE: AVP) when it came to its average orders in North America during the second quarter of this year. Still, the company's global revenue growth is slowing considerably, causing many worries about how the company can recover and restore investor more »