Select Comfort Corp.
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3 Great Stocks Trading at Trash-Bin Valuations
By Jon Quast - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: AAPL, BIDU, CRUS, SCSS, WTW
When the market oversells a stock, value investors can sometimes score a great entry point into a promising company. Think of it like trash-diving; sometimes, terrific things get mistakenly thrown out. Here are five stocks that I found in the market's garbage today, trading way below their 52-week highs.
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These Small Caps Will Profit from the Housing Recovery
By Brian Shaw - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: LL, SCSS, TTS, TREX, Z
Last week, I wrote about how housing markets around the country are showing signs of improvement. While the U.S. is still nowhere near the frenzied market (and prices) of five years ago, a resurgence of demand has led to some significant investing opportunities. The previous article emphasized how companies beyond home builders, home improvement stores, and banks are poised to benefit from this recovery; companies as diverse as copper more »
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These Small Caps Will Profit From the Housing Recovery
By Brian Shaw - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: LL, SCSS, TTS, TREX, Z
Last week, I wrote about how housing markets around the country are showing signs of improvement. While the U.S. is still nowhere near the frenzied market (and prices) of five years ago, a resurgence of demand has led to some significant investing opportunities. The previous article emphasized how companies beyond home builders, home improvement stores, and banks are poised to benefit from this recovery; companies as diverse as copper more »
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These Small Caps Will Profit From the Housing Recovery
By Brian Shaw - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: LL, SCSS, TTS, TREX, Z
Last week, I wrote about how housing markets around the country are showing signs of improvement. While the U.S. is still nowhere near the frenzied market (and prices) of five years ago, a resurgence of demand has led to some significant investing opportunities. The previous article emphasized how companies beyond home builders, home improvement stores, and banks are poised to benefit from this recovery; companies as diverse as copper more »
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These Small Caps Will Profit from the Housing Recovery
By Brian Shaw - April 16, 2013 | Tickers: LL, SCSS, TTS, TREX, Z
Last week, I wrote about how housing markets around the country are showing signs of improvement. While the U.S. is still nowhere near the frenzied market (and prices) of five years ago, a resurgence of demand has led to some significant investing opportunities. The previous article emphasized how companies beyond home builders, home improvement stores, and banks are poised to benefit from this recovery; companies as diverse as copper more »
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Do Mattress Companies Look Comfortable to Investors?
By Austin Higgins - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: MFRM, SCSS, TPX
Mattress Firm Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: MFRM) is on a three month run from $23.97 per share to $29.86 as of March 14, 2013. It announces fourth quarter and annual earnings on March 26 after hours. Does this short term bull run foretell strong earnings?
Mattress Firm is a specialty store that sells mattresses and mattress accessories in the United States. It operates 1,011 stores nationwide. Mattress Firm more »
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Do Mattress Companies Look Comfortable to Investors?
By Austin Higgins - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: MFRM, SCSS, TPX
Note: A previous version of this article misstated Mattress Firm's relationship to Select Comfort. The error has been corrected.
Mattress Firm Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: MFRM) is on a three month run from $23.97 per share to $29.86 as of March 14, 2013. It announces fourth quarter and annual earnings on March 26 after hours. Does this short term bull run foretell strong earnings?
Mattress Firm is a more »
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Growth in Retail Earnings
By Erik Dellith - March 19, 2013 | Tickers: ANF, GNC, SCSS
The latest jobless claims figures suggest continued improvement in the labor market. And that’s good for consumer stocks. Here are three fast-growing, consumer-oriented stocks that caught my attention and deserve a closer look.
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With more people working, more people will have more money to spend on healthcare products. I’m not talking about just the basic vitamins and mineral supplements, but the other diet and more »
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Senator Investment Group Now Owns 8% of This Mattress Company
By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: LZB, MFRM, ZZ, SCSS, TPX
A 13G filed with the SEC has reported that Senator Investment Group, an event driven hedge fund managed by Doug Silverman, owns over 5 million shares of Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX). The most recent 13F filing shows that the fund had not owned any shares of Tempur-Pedic at the beginning of 2013. We at Insider Monkey use 13F filings in order to develop investment strategies (for example, we have found that more »
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Making Money in Mattresses
By Robert Hanley - February 8, 2013 | Tickers: BBBY, ZZ, SCSS, TPX
Investors in the mattress manufacturers have had a tough time lately, despite favorable tailwinds from rising home sales and discretionary spending. The lower-priced, inner spring segment has been losing sales to the specialty mattress segment, led by Select Comfort (NASDAQ: SCSS) and Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX), as customers have been willing to pay higher prices in order to gain the health benefits of high-tech bedding products. Meanwhile, the specialty manufacturers have more »
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I Stink at Selling Stocks
By Tom Winner - January 4, 2013 | Tickers: ACUSD, BRK-B, BWLD, GEOS, MIDD, RSH, SCSS, SVU
If you read a lot about investing, Warren Buffet quotes tend to get thrown around so often that they lose their meaning. For instance, Buffet has written “when we own portions of outstanding businesses with outstanding managements, our favorite holding period is forever.” Despite reading this quote many, many times, I’d never really considered holding my stocks for the very, very long term. I doubt many investors do. But more »
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Investing Between The Sheets
By Reuben Brewer - December 26, 2012 | Tickers: ZZ, SCSS, TPX
Who could have imagined twenty years ago that so many people would start sleeping on foam. However, that's just what's happened. A new technology came out in an old industry, mattresses, and changed the battle field. Sure, the foam is expensive, and kind of cool, but it's foam just the same. Now, the upstart selling the foam is looking to buy one of the old guard, as Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX) is looking to buy Sealy Corporation (NYSE: ZZ).
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Top Losers on Wednesday: Are Any Worth a "Buy"?
By Brian Nichols - December 6, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, FCX, P, SCSS, TIBX
On Wednesday we saw a market that traded higher but several big name stocks that lost great value. Some of which were deserving of this loss, but then there will be some that will trade higher and return large gains following this loss. With that being said, I am looking at five stocks with large loss on Wednesday; three to buy and two to sell.
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Tempur-Pedic Wakes Up Hung Over
By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 25, 2012 | Tickers: LZB, MFRM, ZZ, SCSS, TPX
Editor's Note: Tempur-Pedic released its Q3 results on Oct. 23. It reported EPS of $0.70, GAAP EPS of $(0.03), and further lowered 2012 EPS guidance to $2.55.
Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX) is down about 20% today after the company reduced its guidance for 2012 earnings per share from $2.80- which had been essentially in line with analyst consensus- to $2.55. Given that the company reported more »
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Is Tempur-Pedic a Buy? Or is Select Comfort Still the Best Choice?
By Brian Nichols - October 11, 2012 | Tickers: SCSS, TPX
It seems like so long ago that Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPX) CEO Mark Sarvary cut bottom line guidance in half along with an estimated sales decline of 3-5% for the remainder of the year. But in fact, it has been almost six months, and although the stock is still trading with a near 60% loss since April, it has recently recovered with a 40% gain during the last three months. Therefore more »
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Can You Sit Back and Relax If You Hold These Stocks?
By Jonathan Lim - October 10, 2012 | Tickers: ETH, LZB, ZZ, SCSS, TPX
You'd think companies that make products we spend large amounts of time using would prove to be great investments over time. In many cases, you'd be right—but not always. The wide range in the performance of these companies' stocks suggests that the oft-repeated investment maxim about buying what you love might not work as well as it sounds. Let's compare La-Z-Boy (NYSE: LZB) and Tempur-Pedic (NYSE: TPXmore »)
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What Do Hedge Funds Make of This Merchandise Retailer?
By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 23, 2012 | Tickers: BBBY, KSS, PIR, SCSS, WSM
Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBY) is one of the largest U.S. retail chains selling domestics merchandise and home furnishings, and like many other brick-and-mortar stores, it has faced competition pressures from online retailers, as well as pressures from a weak economy and poor employment.
Hedge funds lost big when Bed Bath & Beyond lost 16% on its 1Q earnings release, but interestingly, many managers held onto their shares. Did more »
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Chieftain Capital Buys More Mattresses
By Meena Krishnamsetty - August 9, 2012 | Tickers: LEG, MFRM, SCSS, TPX
In the first quarter of 2012, Chieftain Capital reduced its stake in Tempur-Pedic International Inc. (NYSE: TPX) from 5.2 million shares to 3.9 million. But now the fund, managed by John Shapiro, is back in. A 13G filed with the SEC reported ownership of over 6 million shares, or over 10% of the company. Tempur-Pedic International Inc. has seen its share price fall 45% so far this year more »
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Can Investors Trust Tempur-Pedic Again?
By Soroush Pour - July 12, 2012 | Tickers: LEG, MFRM, ZZ, SCSS, TPX
There are very few products that have completely revolutionized their respective markets. Tempur-Pedic International’s (NYSE: TPX) TEMPUR memory foam is one such product. Originally developed by NASA as an astronaut seat-cushion (as seen here) in the 1970s, the TEMPUR memory foam we’ve all come to love was introduced to commercial markets in 1991. Touted as one of the most comfortable ways to catch some shuteye, the company's more »
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Sleeping Easy at Night with Tempur-Pedic International?
By C. Russell - June 28, 2012 | Tickers: LEG, ZZ, SCSS, TPX |
Wild changes in sentiment in the stock market are nothing new, but the recent moves in Tempur-Pedic International (NYSE: TPX) have been extraordinary. In mid-April the company was making new highs at $87/share, today we stand at just over $21.50.
The slide began in mid-April after Tempur-Pedic reported a record Q1 but it was the announcement in early June that did most of the damage. The company guided more »
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