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Stock Screener: Liz Claiborne's restructuring in progress

Posted Apr 16th 2007 5:44PM by Melly Alazraki (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Analyst Reports, Forecasts, Stock Screen, Jones Apparel Group (JNY), Liz Claiborne (LIZ), Polo Ralph Lauren'A' (RL)

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Stock Screener: Jones Apparel's brands too mature?

Posted Apr 12th 2007 12:58PM by Melly Alazraki (RSS feed)
Filed under: Columns, Abercrombie and Fitch (ANF), Stock Screen, Jones Apparel Group (JNY), Liz Claiborne (LIZ)

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Update: I've written the post before the recent rumors reported in the New York Post about Barneys New York possibly being bought by Dubai oil sheiks. While I did mention that I've noticed increased activity in JNY trading, the reason was unclear. I now expanded further on the matter at the end of the post.

Last Friday was Good Friday and like every good Canadian who lives along the U.S. border, we decided we couldn't handle one day without shopping (stores in Canada were closed). So we drove to Buffalo. Bargain huntin'. With the low U.S. dollar, bargains are even better. We went to the outlet mall and, as usual, I got stuck at Jones New York, hubby at Liz Claiborne.

Last week I came across an article in Forbes about the possibility of Gianni Versace S.p.A. going public. Versace had recently announced it swung a profit in 2006 and that it plans to further expand in Asia. A Versace IPO could be worth $1.2 billion. A Wall Street Journal article mentioned that a few other private fashion houses might also consider public offering [subscription] next year, including Prada SpA.

Naturally, with all this in my head, I wanted to see how the U.S. fashion stores are doing. In the Stock Screener, I chose the Women's Clothing industry and a minimum $1 billion market capitalization. Lo and behold, the stock screener returned Liz Claiborne Inc. (NYSE: LIZ) and Jones Apparel Group Inc. (NYSE: JNY).

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