IMHO, as of 6:20 am 9/8/2008, by the valuation numbers only, relative to its industry, SHLD is overvalued: SHLD's projected P/E is 47.2x while its industry (Department Stores) is averaging a projected P/E of 21.0x, implying a projected stock price of $40.40. SHLD's projected earnings growth rate is 12.33% and its PEG is 3.83 while the industry average PEG is 1.82, implying a pr...
It has been a year since we started some of our model portfolios. Each model portfolio consists of the top 25 stocks top ranked with its criteria. How did the model portfolios do? What worked and what didn’t? What are we doing differently this year? Performance Review The Most Weighted Portfolio did best in 2006, gained more than 22% without including the dividends. This portfo...
Consumer spending will continue to slow down as inflation rises from rising commodity prices reducing retail sales.Sears needs capital expenditure for revamping its stores at a time when the real cost of money is going up.
I got Sears recommended by a friend like 6 months ago, read their annual report and bought a bunch of shares now. was in the car yesterday and being grumpy about the falling dollar. I live in China just for say, and I put all my earnings over there and the stocks are rising but the dollar falling. Remembered that the Canadian Dollar is at the same level as the USD now. (or nearby). ...
The on-demand availability of information can be a great help to individual investors. Just as often, though, it can be a hindrance as a constant flood of incoming information can cause decision paralysis. Plus, the "biggest" news is usually very important today, in the here and now, but of far less consequence to the long term investor when you look at a the bigger picture. And I'...
SHLD seems to be stabilizing around $130 mark. This is the time to bet on a Pro like Eddie Lampert. You don't buy into the hype when Wall St's going ga-ga and saying he's the next Warren Buffet. You give him the benefit of the doubt when he's down. Mr. Lampert has certainly earned that with his past performance. He may be a hedge fund manager, but he's no fly by the seat of your pants trader...
A big dive in the market yesterday. It looks like investors were spooked by a few earnings bumps and of course the housing market scares everyone. The reality is that housing is bad. There will be a lot of people who lose a lot of money on houses but it will be slow. There aren’t going to be millions of foreclosures in the next month, it’s going to take years for this whole thing to set...
Here is a Briefing.com's Weekly Wrap: Stocks finished higher for the week, leaving the Dow Jones Industrials and broader S&P 500 at record levels, despite lingering concerns about the subprime mortgage market and the health of the economy. The aforementioned concerns were based primarily on the lowered outlooks from Home Depot (HD) and Sears Holdings (SHLD), ...
It's official: Sears (shld) as a retailer is a bust. While strained consumer spending would appear to be the convenient scapegoat, with Sears itself alluding to economic factors in its news release today announcing dismal same-store sales, CEO Aylwin Lewis said, "Our recent performance underscores our ongoing need to become more relevant to consumers while improving our discipline around...
The Big Box Battle: Dogs or Discounts?
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