Fossil Inc. (FOSL): Today's Featured Consumer Durables Laggard
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Virco Manufacturing Corporation
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Fossil, Inc. designs, develops, markets, and distributes consumer fashion accessories worldwide. Fossil has a market cap of $4.96 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 16.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 2.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Fossil a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Fossil as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its impressive record of earnings per share growth, increase in net income, revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.
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