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SHLD: Bull or Bear?
Sears Faces Bankruptcy Risk If Economy Doesn't Improve
SHLD
-2.93%
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22 days
When management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for poor fundamental economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.
- Warren Buffett
Eddie Lampert has a simple strategy when it comes to investing: Buy a large portion of stock in a particular company in which he can influence the management, cut expenses at the company and use the money to buy back stocks. He has been successful so far. Autozone (AZO) is a great example.
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Sears Holdings Corp
SHLD
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+19.00%
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31 days
It has been a year since we started some of our model portfolios. Each model portfolio consists of the top 25 stocks top ranked with its criteria. How did the model portfolios do? What worked and what didn’t? What are we doing differently this year? Performance Review The Most Weighted Portfolio did best in 2006, gained more than 22% without including the dividends. This portfolio consists of the 25 stocks with the highest combined weightings. There is only 1 loser among the 25 stocks, which is Progressive Insurance (PGR). The top performers are Comcast CMCSK and Sears (SHLD ...
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Numbers Check on Sears Holdings - It's Cheap
SHLD
+21.56%
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43 days
With its market price declining daily, giving me the opportunity to pick up even more shares, I thought I’d present a very rough look at how the market is valuing Sears Holdings (SHLD) right now, putting reasonable numbers to a rather abstract investment idea. Reality check number 1: In normal times, Sears is generating a good $50 billion in sales. $50B. The current market value hovers around $10B, or one fifth of sales. Add in net debt ($2.7B in LT debt and capital lease obligations plus a $1.1B pension shortfall) and subtract cash ($1.4B), enterprise value goes up to about $12.5B. Is Se ...
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Sears Remains a Compelling Short
SHLD
-9.09%
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88 days
Sears Holdings (SHLD), the fourth largest broadline retailer in the US, recently reported a net loss of $56 million, or $0.43 loss per share in Q1 2008 versus net income of $223 million in Q1 of 2007. Total US same-store sales declined 8.6%.  Sears attributed this decline to several reasons: 1. Increasing competition. 2. Weakness in the general economy and housing market. 3. Increased costs in consumer staples such as food and gas. Interim CEO Bruce Johnson said, "Our first quarter results reflect the difficult economic environment and intense competition for consumer business." Following th
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Sears in Trouble Over Short-Term, But Looks Solid Over Long-Term
SHLD
+5.91%
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92 days
5/29 - "Now the hysterical folks out there will screaming about a loss that ought not be all that surprising. Those of us who invest in the business, look at the balance sheet and cash position and recognize those are a solid as ever. As a mater of fact, when compared to competitors JC Penny (JCP), Kohl's (KSS), Macy's (M) and even Home Depot (HD), Sears has by far the strongest balance sheet. It also is the largest appliance retailer by FAR. Since that category currently is being hit very hard by housing, it only stands to reason that they will suffer more than the others. "
"What to do? ...
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Sears Needs More than Buybacks for Its Stock to Turn Around
SHLD
-5.91%
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92 days
5/29 - "Another quarter in the books for Sears Holdings (SHLD), and another lackluster effort on the retail front. These days it seems hopes for profit come only from the Holdings rather than the Sears as Hedge Fund manager turned executive Ed Lampert has been unable to turn around the retail division with any amount of success in recent quarters...Sears posted a net loss of $56Million ($0.43/share). On the top line, Revenue fell almost 6% to $11.07Billion."
"...gross margins declined by 1% to 27%. As the economy weakened in the United States, it became clearer that bigger ticket items wou...
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MarketMash: Long week is over, short week to profit
SHLD
+3.48%
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97 days
Last week saw a good deal of action in the markets. The bad news is that even as we were excited to enter the long weekend and the Hamptons are starting to see more life and less clothes (so I am told). The bad news is starting to sink-in and the simple fact that the oil price “blip” is not such a “blip” is upsetting investors. If that wasn’t bad enough, the weekend BBQ now costs a gonsa-fortune! We stopped on the side of the road to pick up some watermelon and were shocked when we realized that it was $9 for ONE! So, one rib, on wing and one peach is all you get in 2008 for what is costs f ...
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Ackman May Be Active, But Not at Sears
SHLD
-23.61%
in
50 days
(closed on 06/26/08)
With the news that Target (TGT) has agreed to sell $3.6 billion worth
of credit card receivables to JP Morgan (JPM), one cannot help but
notice Ackman has not made a single demand from Edward Lampert at Sears
holdings (SHLD). This would be the only investment in memory he has
taken such a stance.<!--more-->
Ackman was at Sears' annual meeting and did ask a few benign questions. According to Ackman, his 5 million share investment in Sears "is due to Eddie Lampert".
Nowsome will say that Ackman has been quiet because "he knows Lampert" orsome such foolishness. Let's be honest, you do not i...
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Sears' Nifty Purchase: Footstar Footwear
SHLD
-6.39%
in
29 days
(closed on 05/07/08)
Footstar Inc. (FTAR) is selling its footwearlicense to Sears Holdings (SHLD) for $13 million in preparation forwinding down its business at the end of the year. Footstar agreed tosell substantially all of its intellectual property to Sears, includingthe intellectual property related to Sears’ Kmart business.<!--more-->
Footstaroperates roughly 1,300 licensed footwear departments at Kmart under acontract set to expire at the end of 2008. They also operate licensedfootwear departments in 859 Rite Aid Corporation stores located on theWest Coast. Brands under Footstar’s operations include Thom M...
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Really just an Idea
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-30.15%
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332 days
I got Sears recommended by a friend like 6 months ago, read their annual report and
bought a bunch of shares now.
was in the car yesterday and being grumpy about the falling dollar.
I live in China just for say, and I put all my earnings over there and the stocks are rising but the dollar falling.
Remembered that the Canadian Dollar is at the same level as the USD now. (or nearby).
I have no Idea if that makes sense or not as I have no financial education whatsoever,
but since sears canada is now recently wholly owned by Sears, shouldn't that mean that their real esta...
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Keeping the Big Picture in View
SHLD
-29.86%
in
351 days
The on-demand availability of information can be a great help to individual investors. Just as often, though, it can be a hindrance as a constant flood of incoming information can cause decision paralysis. Plus, the "biggest" news is usually very important today, in the here and now, but of far less consequence to the long term investor when you look at a the bigger picture.
And I'm not simply saying this from a detached writer's perspective. I was aghast the other day when I noticed how much cash is sitting in my own investment accounts. Cash that could be slaving away on my behalf,...
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A Speculative Bet on a Pro When He's Down
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-31.26%
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386 days
SHLD seems to be stabilizing around $130 mark. This is the time to bet on a Pro like Eddie Lampert. You don't buy into the hype when Wall St's going ga-ga and saying he's the next Warren Buffet. You give him the benefit of the doubt when he's down.
Mr. Lampert has certainly earned that with his past performance. He may be a hedge fund manager, but he's no fly by the seat of your pants trader. I believe he knows what he's doing.
This is a speculative pick for me because:
1. It's a retailer. And a crappy one at that. These are hard businesses to run, nevermind turn around.
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Weekly Recap
SHLD
+42.18%
in
410 days
Here is a Briefing.com's Weekly Wrap:
Stocks finished higher for the week, leaving the Dow Jones Industrials and broader S&P 500 at record levels, despite lingering concerns about the subprime mortgage market and the health of the economy.
The aforementioned concerns were based primarily on the lowered outlooks from Home Depot (HD) and Sears Holdings (SHLD), as well as a warning by Standard & Poor's and Moody's Investors Service credit rating agencies that they are downgrading ratings on several hundred securities involving sub-prime debt.
Those ...
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