General Merchandise Stores

No new positions yet this morning, but a ton of stocks on my watchlist, that I posted yesterday, are flying. I'm more concerned with managing my current positions, but may, under the right circumstances add one additional position to the portfolio. By the way, did you see Travelzoo (TZOO)? I...

Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) will be reporting its first-quarter 2011 results tomorrow, May 12, before the opening bell. Analysts are looking for the company to post earnings of $0.72 per share on revenue of $4.2 billion. That is up from $0.64 per share on $4.0 billion in the same period of last year. Note...

The earnings season is beginning to wind down for another quarter. That can only mean that it is time for some of our favorite shopping mall and strip mall retailers to step into the earnings spotlight. Kohl's (NYSE: KSS) and Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN) start things off later this week when they report...

Piper Jaffray is reiterating its Overweight rating on Target (NYSE: TGT) following the release of April sales results. April same store sales increased +13.1% which was below consensus and management's guidance, but was above our estimates and likely above most investors' expectations. Piper...

CNBC Fast Money's Anthony Scaramucci recommended on the show a long position in Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ). He likes it because it is a defensive name. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) fell 1.01% today, and it closed at $65.01. Tim Seymour thinks that you should buy Vale (ADR) (NYSE: VALE)...

Target April Same-Store Sales +13.1% vs. +13.8% Estimate (NYSE: TGT)

Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) today reported that its net retail sales for the four weeks ended April 30, 2011 were $4,874 million, an increase of 13.7 percent from $4,288 million for the four weeks ended May 1, 2010. On this same basis, April comparable-store sales increased 13.1 percent.

Fred's Inc. (NASDAQ: FRED) today reported sales for the four-week fiscal month of April, which ended April 30, 2011. Fred's total sales for the month increased 3% to $141.8 million from $137.5 million in April 2010. Comparable store sales for the month rose 1.8% versus an increase of 0.6% in the...

Sunday is Mother's Day, that day when all mother's are supposed to be made to feel special by their ungrateful children. (Okay, we're just kidding about the ungrateful part, but you could take out the trash, and clean your room once in a while.) Most Mother's Day include taking Mom (and Grandma)...

Shares of Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ: DLTR) are lower on the session by 1.65%, trading at $57.77. Overall call volume is now running at 2.35x the daily average, with 57% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,200 contracts have traded on the session so far. Dollar Tree, Inc. is an...

Back in the depths of the Great Recession we often wrote about the atypical issues hitting the economy such as people renting out rooms in their homes at a much higher rate than normal, couples who wanted a divorce but could not afford to live on their own staying together, and the huge bracket of...

Private equity firm Blackstone (NYSE: BX) and Callaway Golf (NYSE: ELY), the maker of the Big Bertha driver, are reportedly mulling a partnership to bid for Fortune Brands' (NYSE: FO) golf business. A deal could be worth up to $1 billion, Reuters reported, citing sources close to the matter....

A tweet from Target's (NYSE: TGT) official Twitter account shows that the mass retailer is carrying the white version of the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone 4. The white version of the phone was released today, as the company could not get the pain situation right, but was finally able to get it right...

10. Bank of America Corporation (NYSE:BAC) Worldwide Employees- 288,062 Mkt cap- 124.59B Brian T. Moynihan- President, Chief Executive Officer Charles H. Noski- Chief Financial Officer Related companies: Citigroup Inc (C), Wells Fargo & Company (WFC), JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM) Bank of...

On CNBC this morning, Brian Sozzi, a research analyst for Wall Street Strategies, cautiously analyzed the U.S. retail economy and mentioned that Target (NYSE: TGT) has taken some preventative measures to protect itself from a downturn in the economy.