Perry Ellis International Inc. Stock Downgraded (PERY)

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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Perry Ellis International (Nasdaq:PERY) has been downgraded by TheStreet Ratings from buy to hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its reasonable valuation levels, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including deteriorating net income, disappointing return on equity and poor profit margins.

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Highlights from the ratings report include:

• Despite currently having a low debt-to-equity ratio of 0.46, it is higher than that of the industry average, inferring that management of debt levels may need to be evaluated further. Despite the fact that PERY's debt-to-equity ratio is mixed in its results, the company's quick ratio of 1.62 is high and demonstrates strong liquidity.
• PERY, with its decline in revenue, underperformed when compared the industry average of 17.6%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 2.3%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
• The company's current return on equity has slightly decreased from the same quarter one year prior. This implies a minor weakness in the organization. Compared to other companies in the Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods industry and the overall market, ELLIS PERRY INTL INC's return on equity significantly trails that of both the industry average and the S&P 500.
• The gross profit margin for ELLIS PERRY INTL INC is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 31.40%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of -1.20% is significantly below that of the industry average.

Perry Ellis International, Inc. engages in designing, sourcing, marketing, and licensing apparel products in the United States and internationally. The company has a P/E ratio of 17.8, above the average consumer non-durables industry P/E ratio of 15.1 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Perry Ellis International has a market cap of $306.6 million and is part of the consumer goods sector and consumer non-durables industry. Shares are up 56.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday.

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-- Written by a member of TheStreet Ratings Staff

 

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