Abercrombie & Fitch Company (ANF): Today's Featured Retail Laggard
(
) pushed the Retail industry lower today making it today's featured Retail laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.1%. By the end of trading, Abercrombie & Fitch Company fell $0.98 (-1.9%) to $50.48 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1,803,650 shares of Abercrombie & Fitch Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,838,200 shares. The stock ranged in price between $50.00-$52.38 after having opened the day at $51.99 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $51.46. Other companies within the Retail industry that declined today were:
(
), down 7.1%,
(
), down 5.2%,
(
), down 2.8% and
Fairway Group Holdings Corp Class A
(
), down 2.7%.
Abercrombie & Fitch Co., through its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty retailer of casual apparel for men, women, and kids. It operates through three segments: U.S. Stores, International Stores, and Direct-to-Consumer. Abercrombie & Fitch Company has a market cap of $4.0 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 7.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate Abercrombie & Fitch Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 8 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Abercrombie & Fitch Company
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and reasonable valuation levels. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows weak operating cash flow.
- You can view the full Abercrombie & Fitch Company Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 9.4%,
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), up 8.9%,
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), up 6.5% and
(
), up 4.5% , were all gainers within the retail industry with
(
) being today's featured retail industry leader.
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(
) while those bearish on the retail industry could consider
ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Goods
(
).
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