I read a lot of stuff. From time to time I come upon something I want to share with you. Often I hold on to it until it fits into something I’m writing. But at this point, I’ve got a few articles I’ve been saving that it’s just time to spring on you in the hope you might […]
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I should start out by telling you that the Buckle July 28, 2012 balance sheet is strong. But long term investments include $15.1 million in Auction Rate Securities (ARS). An ARS is a long term security with an interest rate that resets via a “Dutch auction” every 7 to 49 days depending on the terms of the
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A couple of readers were thoughtful enough to send me articles on the possible sale of Rip Curl. You can read them here and here. What’s intriguing from my perspective is that the offers came along at the same time as the conditional TPG offer for Billabong. As you know, that’s in due diligence right now, though there’s
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Quik’s net income for the quarter rose 16% to $12.5 million compared to $10.7 million in the pcp (prior calendar period- same quarter the previous year). But the provision for income taxes fell from $9 million to $2.5 million or from 45.6% to 16.8%. Here’s what Quik says in their 10Q about why that happened. “This decrease
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We need to start by recalling that Tilly’s converted from an S to a C corporation on May 2nd, 2012 and went public May 3rd. That had an impact on its comparative financial statements. Let’s review the GAAP results than look at that impact. Sales grew 20.5% to $105 million from $87.3 million in the
Tilly’s Quarter: The Connection Between Operations and Marketing Read More »
Life is so not fair. Here I am on vacation, vowing to just get the Zumiez analysis done. I do that, I send it out and now I can relax, right? Nah. Literally 20 minutes later, along comes an 8K/A from Zumiez filed with the SEC giving us the Blue Tomato financial statements. Let’s try and keep this short. First,
Zumiez Releases More Information on Blue Tomato Read More »
Okay, I don’t mean it. No way I can ignore the financial results. It’s just not the way my mind works. But I was so struck with something President and CEO Rich Brooks said in their conference call that I wanted to start there. He said, as a brief part of a longer answer to an analyst’s question, “…we
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Strategies don’t bear fruit in a quarter, or even in a year. There’s still a lot of work to be done before we can say that PacSun’s strategy has been successful if only because the company is still losing money. The goal has been the same for a couple of years now; to make PacSun relevant to
PacSun’s Quarter: Still Losing Money, But Elements of the Strategy Becoming Clearer Read More »
Spy announced on August 27 that they were reducing their North American and European employment by 20 positions, going to a distribution model in Europe (they had been direct previously), and spending less on marketing. They think these changes will cost them $1.2 million in the quarter ($1.0 million in cash) during their 3rd quarter, but
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Billabong’s fiscal year ended June 30. On August 27, they released their full year results and presented their promised strategic plan. The financial results were poor but not unexpected, coming in at the low end of their guidance. The good news is that it looks like they wrote off, wrote down, reserved for or expensed every item they
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