August 2019

Consolidation and Finding New Participants; Vail Buys Peak Resorts

It was July 22nd when Vail announced it had reached an agreement to purchase Peak Resorts for $11.00 a share or a total of $264 million. Peak Resorts, traded publicly under the symbol SKIS, closed at $5.19 on July 19. Hard to say “no” when somebody offers you more than double your stock price. Vail […]

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Hibbett Sports Says Some Interesting Things: Can They Catch Up in Ecommerce?

Hibbett Sports

In its conference call and 10Q filing for its May 4th quarter, Hibbett said some interesting things about what it’s doing. Let’s take a brief look at Hibbett and its numbers then talk about how Hibbett is trying to adjust to the changing retail world after its very late start. Hibbett describes itself as “…a

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