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Apparel Week In Review: Gap Inc Reports Monthly Results And Urban Outfitters Discloses An M-Commerce Contract
The past week was relatively uneventful for the U.S. apparel industry, except that Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) reported its September sales results, which once again turned out to be disappointing. The lack of fashion variety comparable to fast-fashion br...
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Gap Inc: Why Investors Shouldn’t Swear The Old Navy President’s Departure
Gap Inc ‘s (NYSE:GPS) stock fell 6% yesterday, hitting a new low of $28 as Old Navy president, Stefan Larsson, left the company to take over the CEO’s position at Ralph Lauren (NYSE:RL). Stefan Larsson was instrumental in keeping the ...
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Two Factors That Support Our Bullish Outlook For Gap Inc
Gap Inc ‘s (NYSE:GPS) stock has fallen by almost 30% over the past six months due both to the consistently weak performance of its mainline brands ( Gap and Banana Republic) and to broad investor pessimism centered on the rapid growth of f...
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Gap Inc’s Premium Brands Aren’t Moving Fast Enough
Gap Inc ‘s (NYSE:GPS) premium brands, Gap and Banana Republic, have been struggling for a while now to keep up with changing consumer shopping behavior. Even in its August sales results, released earlier this month, the company’s nam...
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Gap Inc Sees Some Potential For Next Year But Q2 2015 Remains Weak
The continued weakness in Gap Inc ‘s (NYSE:GPS) premium brands, Gap and Banana Republic, was the key feature of its second quarter earnings release. However, CEO Art Peck said that he was confident in the brands’ underlying strength...
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Gap Inc Earnings Preview: Underlying Performance, Omni-Channel Business In Focus As Sales Remain Weak
Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) is scheduled to report its Q1 fiscal 2015 earnings on August 20th, but it has already released its sales growth metrics for the quarter. In a press release earlier this month, the retailer announced that its net sales on a repo...
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Is Store Consolidation Actually Working Out For Gap Inc?
Apparel vendor Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) started closing domestic stores for its namesake brand and Old Navy several years ago, after their large store networks began cannibalizing their own sales. Other reasons that triggered and kept the store conso...
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What Premium Brands’ Weakness Can Do To Gap Inc’s Value
Apparel vendor Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) is one of the few apparel retailers in the U.S. that did not struggle amid an edgy retail environment until last year. The retailer was able to grow its revenues even when buyers across the industry were beginn...
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Gap Inc Is Gradually Losing Its Share In The U.S. Apparel Market To Fast-Fashion Counterparts
The apparel retail landscape in the U.S. is highly developed and competitive with a number of specialty brands, department stores and multi-brand chains competing against each other on design, variety and price. Over the last few years in particu...
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Gap Inc’s To Close 175 Gap Stores In An Effort To Boost Its Profitability
Apparel major Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) recently unveiled plans to close 175 of its specialty Gap stores over the next few years, in order to rightsize the brand’s store fleet. Alongside, the company plans to lay off 250 employees from its head...
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Gap Inc Earnings: Premium Brands Revival Efforts Not Enough To Energize 2015 Outlook
Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) recently reported its Q1 fiscal 2015 earnings with its net sales falling behind the consensus estimates and earnings per share coming inline. The company’s net sales fell 3% to $3.66 billion, while analysts polled by Thom...
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Gap Inc Earnings Preview: Premium Brand Weakness & Currency Headwinds To Offset Consistent Old Navy
Apparel leader Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) is scheduled to report its Q1 fiscal 2015 earnings on May 21st, but it has already released its sales growth metrics for the quarter. In a press release earlier this month, the retailer announced that its net s...
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Easter Shift And Currency Headwinds Thump Gap Inc’s April Results
Despite the Easter shift from April to March this year on Gap Inc’s (NYSE:GPS) retail calendar, it wasn’t able to post positive gains for its struggling premium brands – Gap and Banana Republic in March. It was certain that Apri...
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Even Early Easter Could Not Bring Gap Inc’s Premium Brands Out Of Their Slump
Apparel major, Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS), recently released its March sales results, which clearly showed the persistent struggle of its premium brands – Gap and Banana Republic . Gap’s global comparable sales fell 7% on top of a similar d...
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Gap Inc February Results Confirmed Its Fiscal 2015 Concerns
Last month, after its Q4 and fiscal 2015 earnings release, apparel major Gap Inc (NYSE:GPS) issued a frail guidance for fiscal 2015 stating that strengthening dollar and inventory delays due to West Coast port congestion will weigh heavily on it...
