Beyond macroeconomic challenges, we continue to contend with significant headwinds caused by inventory shrink, building on a worsening trend that emerged last year. While shrink can be driven by multiple factors, theft and organized retail crime are increasingly urgent issues…
Although the firearms market remains elevated and healthy with new entrants, it has cooled significantly from the height of the pandemic surge and seems to now be following pre-pandemic historical demand patterns – Mark Smith, Smith & Wesson (SWBI) CEO…
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Last Monday, IMAX (IMAX) announced their first $100 million box office quarter for the 4th quarter, driven by $54 million from Avatar. In the past week, IMAX outfitted theaters did about 25% of Avatar’s domestic box office with just 2%…
We’re not in a recession. We’re in a depression. – Bobby Mahan, a local real estate broker Two years ago, Peter Goodman wrote an award winning piece on the real estate bust in Cape Coral, FL: “This Is The Sound…
Cover stories about the stock market tend to occur at points near maximum momentum on the upside or the downside. – Steve Sjuggerud, “Wringing Profits From Magazines”, Investment U, July 8, 2003 What does Time Magazine putting Ben Bernanke on…
I finished basketball in 1978, then went into my own business in 1980 and did it for 29 years… Now I get to the end of that career and probably should have retired. But there was a calling greater than…