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Zumiez’s Quarter: Good Result, Same Concerns Everybody Else Has

Zumiez filed its 10Q yesterday for the quarter ended April 30. It was a pretty good quarter compared to the same quarter the previous year. Sales were up almost 19% to $106 million on a comparable store sales increase of 12.6%. The number of comparable store transactions increased but dollars per transaction fell. They also opened a net of […]

Skullcandy Files Another Amendment to Its S1

Skull filed another amendment to its S1 on May 11. You can see it here.  I confess that I have not compared both documents side by side and word for word to discover differences. I can tell you that the newly amended S1 has pretty pictures in it at both the beginning and the end which will be […]

Skullcandy’s IPO; What’s New?

I guess it was around the time of the SIA show in Denver that Skullcandy announced they were going to do an initial public offering. They came out with the draft of the prospectus, and I took a pretty detailed look at it. Typically, the “quiet period” after you file with the SEC lasts 40 to […]

PPR Buys Volcom, Probably

You know, I should have seen this coming and been sitting on 10,000 shares. But no such luck and anyway, I don’t own shares in companies I write about. Still, the deal’s not a complete surprise. Vans, DC, Reef, Sector 9 and Hurley are a partial list of industry companies that have been acquired by larger companies that […]

Orange 21 Year End Results and Management Restructuring

I unexpectedly had to spend about 10 days back east on family issues. Everything turned out fine, but I got way, way behind on my analysis. But sometimes things work out, and Orange 21’s management changes of last week gave me the perfect opportunity to tie those changes to their financial results and write a way more […]