I’m looking at Decker’s filings not because of a general interest in Deckers, but because they purchased Sanuk last July. Unlike Reef as part of VF Corporation, Sanuk is a significant part of Decker’s sales and profits so we can find out way more about how it’s doing as part of Deckers than we can find […]
Decker’s Quarter and Sanuk’s Role in it. Read More »
SPY’s sales for the quarter ended March 31 increased 22% during the quarter to $8.1 million compared to $6.7 million in the same quarter last year. The company had a net loss of $2.58 million compared to $1.52 million in the quarter last year. Sale of SPY branded products were also up 22% to $7.9 million. The
SPY Optic’s Quarter: Sales and Loss Both Grow Read More »
Let’s review what’s happened. Over a few years, Billabong transformed itself from a wholesaler with a group of strong brands with some retail to a 600 store retailer that owns brands. The retail growth, I’ve written, probably took place a little faster than they had planned, but if what you think is the right opportunity appears, sometimes
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The International Association of Skateboard Company’s conference week was, as usual, well attended by the people you want to see there. That’s a lot of what makes it worth attending for me. I enjoyed the Hall of Fame awards. It was great to see and hear some of these people I’ve only read about. I left before the bitter
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There’s a lot of interesting information in this10Q and the conference call. Let’s start with the income statement to see where we want to focus. You can see the whole 10Q here. First, we see a 47.9% growth in sales from $36 million in the quarter ended March 31, 2011 to $53.3 million in the same
Skullcandy’s March Quarter: Great Sales Growth. Where’s the Income? Read More »
Vail Resorts released some metrics today on their season through April 22nd that I thought were worth a quick review because of some of the lessons it teaches any business about market positioning. I also want to discuss briefly accounting for season passes (try and contain your excitement). You can see the complete press release here. The numbers
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This article was occasioned by PPR’s release of its quarterly results, but that’s not really what it’s about. When PPR, or Decker’s or VF or Jarden releases earnings we’re interested in what happened mostly because we’d like to know what’s going on with Volcom, or Sanuk, or Reef, or K2/Ride. We never find out very much. Volcom
PPR Earnings Release and Volcom- Exit Strategies for Core Brands Read More »
Globe actually released these back in February. As far as I can tell everybody, including me, missed them. There’s never a lot of information in these Australian six month results. Still, I thought a brief look might be in order. You can download the report yourself if you want to see it. Globe’s revenues fell 8% from $46.4
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Not much is different in this filing, but we do get a few additional pieces of information. You can review what I wrote about their initial filing last July here. I updated that analysis in March of 2012 when they released their numbers for the year. My opinion hasn’t changed and I think the analysis is still valid.
Tilly’s IPO Moving Forward; Another S1 Amendment is Filed Read More »
Nike recently came out with their 10Q for the quarter ended February 29th. I looked through it, read the conference call transcript, and sat down with the intention of doing my usual analysis. Then I thought to myself, “Who am I kidding?” You want my analysis? They keep growing, make a lot of money, and their balance sheet
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