CNBC‘s Jim Cramer has been lately analyzing VF Corp (NYSE:VFC)’s performance with keen interest. The company’s price has been rising for a while...
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September 12 - News - Comments
According to the Farmers Almanac, a colder than usual winter they call “The Days of Shivery” is upon us. This is great news for outerwear...
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September 17 - News - Comments
Dividend investors would be wise to focus not just on a stock’s current yield, but also on the long-term growth potential of its dividends. That...
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September 15 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
The Jones Group Inc. (NYSE:JNY) is a small-cap company that designs and markets wholesale apparel, footwear, and accessories. Its brands include Kurt...
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September 10 - News - Comments
When looking for investments, you may want to look to the S&P 500’s Dividend Aristocrats list. Companies merit a spot on the list when they...
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August 30 - News - Comments
Lululemon Athletica inc. (NASDAQ:LULU) suffered a public relations disaster earlier this year. It had to recall some black yoga pants that turned out...
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August 17 - News - Comments
Outdoor clothing company VF Corp (NYSE:VFC) is one of the most compelling growth stories in the retail sector. Its mix of brands gives it the diversity...
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August 7 - News - Comments
Apparel brands rely heavily on a successful advertising campaign. Innovation is another important point. When both come together, intelligent publicity...
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August 5 - News - Comments
Major League Baseball recently played its annual all-star game. That made me think about what stocks might be all-stars from the first half of the year...
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August 5 - News - Comments
Many popular consumer brands are owned by a parent company that you’ve never heard of. And for investors, sometimes it’s worth doing a little...
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July 24 - News - Comments
The Emperor’s New Clothes is a nearly two century old fairy tale by Hans Christian Anderson about an emperor who pays good money for new “...
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July 19 - News - Comments
I am often worried about companies that have experienced a huge amount of insider sales, as it could indicate that insiders might not be bullish about...
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July 12 - News - Comments
NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) is one of those companies whose results will interest the whole of the retail industry as well as its own shareholders. And given...
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July 3 - News - Comments
V.F. Corporation (NYSE:VFC) provided new five-year growth and earnings targets for 2013-17 at its analyst day presentation which reinforce the view that...
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July 3 - News - Comments
NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) remains the largest and most dominant player in the athletic footwear and apparel categories, which it has helped revolutionize...
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July 2 - News - Comments
Some companies make things easy on themselves when they make long-term plans. Barclays, for instance, has the headline plan of being the “go-to...
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June 26 - News - Comments
Phillips-Van Heusen rocketed up 10% last week, thanks to posting EPS of $1.91, well above $1.33 in the prior-year’s quarter. PVH continues to...
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June 18 - News - Comments
Investors were alternately intrigued and dismayed by the recent announcement that big-name apparel maker True Religion Apparel, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRLG) had...
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June 17 - News - Comments
VF Corp (NYSE:VFC), owner of The North Face, Wrangler, and Timberland brands, among others, has a plan. By 2017, the company wants to be pulling down $...
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June 12 - News - Comments
Constant connection to the internet, pulse and pace monitoring 24/7, pants that massage away your doughy thighs, shirts that wick away sweat, hugging...
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June 3 - News - Comments
Recently, TowerBrook Capital Partners announced that it would acquire True Religion Apparel, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRLG) for around $32 per share in cash, with...
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May 28 - News - Comments
The power of dividends is nothing new to decade-long income investors. Yet, more recently, droves of investors are jumping on the dividend bandwagon,...
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May 15 - News - Comments
Apparel manufacturing hasn’t been a great business to be in for decades, and apparel manufacturing stocks have never been particularly exciting....
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May 10 - News - Comments
VF Corp (NYSE:VFC) is one of those infuriating stocks that never seems to be cheap precisely when you want it to be. The latest set of results kept up...
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May 8 - News - Comments
After nearly four months of strength, U.S. stocks showed their first chink in the armor as all three major indices dropped more than 2% during the week...
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April 23 - News - Comments
What if I told you that the footwear industry was approaching $50 billion a year in revenue with over $20 billion coming from the US alone? Is that something...
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April 2 - News - Comments
Retail is one of the sectors that it pays to have an open mind over. In other words don’t let your built-in ideas and prejudices take precedence over...
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March 28 - News - Comments
Whenever I’m looking at a retail company, I can’t help but remember Peter Lynch’s sage advice. He said to keep an eye on inventory levels...
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March 19 - News - Comments
Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ:SMTC)’s buyout of Canadian firm Gennum last March had an immediate impact on its earnings. Despite the positive effect...
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February 26 - News - Comments
V.F. Corporation (NYSE:VFC) presents a familiar investing conundrum for which I don’t have a definitive answer. The said problem is whether to buy a...
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February 20 - News - Comments
The clothing retailer True Religion Apparel, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRLG) saw its stock pushed up over 20% after posting earnings last week; is the stock now...
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February 19 - News - Comments