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Urban Outfitters, Inc., a lifestyle specialty retail company, operates specialty retail stores under the Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, and Terrain brands. Its Urban Outfitters stores offer women?s and men?s fashion apparel, footwear, gifts, and accessories, as well as a mix of apartment wares, such as rugs, pillows, shower curtains, books, candles, and novelties for young adults; and Anthropologie stores offers women?s casual apparel and accessories, and a range of gifts and decorative items, as well as home furnishings, including furniture, rugs, lighting products, antiques...
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Long Urban Outfitters (URBN)
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Back in the 70's and 80's stocks p/e's came down to levels of 4-7's. So urbn with a pe of 7x this years earnings estimatesgives it a price of about 9.45. I also read in urbn's 10Q something about urbn having some auction rate security and cdo investment exposure such as student loan instruments and im not sure what else. I view this as another possible drag on the company. I also reiterate they are a retailer and regardless of how popular there brand is I think they will come under pressure. I also said be weary of institutions and analyst pumping the stock. Notice Jeffries Oppenheimer and ...
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Back in the 70's and 80's stocks p/e's came down to levels of 4-7's. So urbn with a pe of 7x this years earnings estimatesgives it a price of about 9.45. I also read in urbn's 10Q something about urbn having some auction rate security and cdo investment exposure such as student loan instruments and im not sure what else. I view this as another possible drag on the company. I also reiterate they are a retailer and regardless of how popular there brand is I think they will come under pressure. I also said be weary of institutions and analyst pumping the stock. Notice Jeffries Oppenheimer and ...
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Longer term direction URBN
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Based on my same theory about the p/e multiple contracting. Not to mention they are in the retail space. Insiders have been unloading shares. that doesnt mean they cant run it up on earnings. supposed to report earnings 11/13/08. If it doesnt hold the 20$ area it wont look to good
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From the Blogosphere
The week in preview: Earnings from Walmart, Macy's, and other retailers
Urban Outfitters – Aggressive Growth – Zacks Rank Buy
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Urban Outfitters Inc. (URBN)
Estimates Continue to Climb
Since being featured on Sep 30, Urban Outfitters has received 9 upward estimate revisions for both this year and the next. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for this year is now $1.17, which would be unchanged year-over-year. Next year's forecasts are averaging $1.43, a 23% increase.
Urban Outfitters is set to report quarterly results on Nov 12.
Ahead of the Pack
<>Urban Outfitters is operating with a net profit margin of 9.8%, much higher than the 1.4% its peers' average. The company also boasts a ROE of nearly 17%, 10% higher than th...
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Analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations: ADBE, HAL, GCI, GT, IMAX, URBN ...
Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Halliburton (HAL), Analyst initiations  Analyst upgrades:
<> Sierra Wireless (NASDAQ: SWIR) was upgraded at Jefferies to Hold from Underperform following Q3 results. The firm believes the Wavecom acquisition integration is progressing better than expected and finds the valuation attractive at current levels. The firm raised its price target to $10 from $5. <>Boston Properties (NYSE: BXP) was upgraded to Buy from Hold at Deutsche Bank to reflect the company's recapitalization and better-than-expected occupancy. The firm raised its target to $69 ...
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Update on Short Interest in the Retail Sector
North America retailers have reported a range of results over the past few DESLI U.S. Retailers weeks. The market did not have high expectations, so in many cases the results were not as bad as most investors had feared. <>There were some exceptions, with Sears (SHLD) announcing an unexpected loss, due to a pension related write down. Urban Outfitters (URBN), a possible casualty of any CIT (CIT) failure, has seen its short base decline rapidly, almost halving during August. Other large declines in short base are evident in JC Penney (JCP), American Eagle Outfitters (AEO) and Big Lots (BIG). Ho...
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The conventional wisdom is that consumer spending is what drives the U.S. economy. And consumer spending arises out of consumer confidence. Unfortunately, the signals along the road to economic recovery are mixed, what with the rising 
