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$12.10 -0.33 (-2.65%)
10/7/2008 3:43 PM

Mothers Work, Inc. (MWRK)

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The Company is a designer and retailer of maternity apparel in the United States and are the only nationwide chain of maternity specialty stores.

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MWRK doesn't currently meet the $100M market cap / $1.50 stock price minimum. (Learn More)

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53 Outperforms
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Micro Cap (4824), Apparel Stores (56)
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Mothers Work, Inc. At A Glance

Current Price: $12.10
Last Trade Time: 10/7/2008 3:43 PM
Open: $11.76
Previous Close: $12.43
Daily Range: $11.75 - $12.26
52-Week Range: $8.97 - $20.21
Volume: 3,164
Market Cap: $75.46M
P/E Ratio: 23.66
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Avatar tenmiles (99.99) Submitted: 7/12/07 1:26 PM

Today's selloff provides reasonable valuation buy-in at $25. Expect the stock to be dead money for a while until SSS and comps improve, but good risk-adjusted entry at this level

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Avatar germo (< 20) Submitted: 7/19/07 8:17 AM

This company struggles from poor management that is only able to grow through acquisition, and they've already bought up everybody they can. The competitors left are mostly Wal-Mart and Target. Mgm't bailed on the stock last Nov. pulling out 50% of their holdings in the company (a cool $21 million...More

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Avatar FPFGeorge (70.60) Submitted: 7/26/07 10:28 AM : Outperform Start Price: $24.37 MWRK Score: -17.06

Current fashion trends that include maternaty like clothes that are competing with MWRK's products are coming to an end. Sales at MWRK stores should recover next year.

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Avatar germo (< 20) Submitted: 7/19/07 8:17 AM : Underperform Start Price: $24.60 MWRK Score: 15.27

This company struggles from poor management that is only able to grow through acquisition, and they've already bought up everybody they can. The competitors left are mostly Wal-Mart and Target. Mgm't bailed on the stock last Nov. pulling out 50% of their holdings in the company (a cool $21 million). Won't outperform until they come up with a business strategy that will work.

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Avatar tenmiles (99.99) Submitted: 7/12/07 1:26 PM : Outperform Start Price: $25.32 MWRK Score: -17.36

Today's selloff provides reasonable valuation buy-in at $25. Expect the stock to be dead money for a while until SSS and comps improve, but good risk-adjusted entry at this level

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Avatar NetscribeRetail (71.71) Submitted: 3/28/07 3:22 AM : Outperform Start Price: $31.96 MWRK Score: -32.51

Mothers Work, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, manufacture, and retail of maternity apparel. It offers casual and career wear, formal attire, lingerie, sportswear, and outerwear with its maternity line. It sells under the brands like Mimi Maternity (Mimi), A Pea in the Pod (Pea), and Destination Maternity. Further, Mothers Work sells its products on the Internet at MaternityMall.com and its brand-specific Web sites, as well as through a product and license agreement with Kohl’s.


As per market research it is said that 4 million babies are born every year in U.S. and American women spend an estimated $1.2 billion annually on maternity wear. This makes for an attractive market to invest in or at least that’s what one may think, but there are various other factors, which may affect a company’s sales and margins. Like in case of Mothers Work, company is facing decline in its sales from past five consecutive months. Its first quarter for the year saw a dip in sales and reason for that, as claimed by the company is unseasonably warm weather, which affected its fall collection sales. Its coming quarter too is suffering from declining sales due to colder weather, which is affecting its spring collection sales. It is like one talks of whether when have nothing much to talk about.


Keeping its declining sales aside, company is doing well with its margins due to lower markdowns and lower promotions and also improved inventory as compare to last year. Additionally, if we consider companies past performance, we see is its top line growing annually and rising profit. Apart from stores company sells its products online as well. Looking at the US online retail sales, which were $329 billion in 2005 and with continuous innovations, it is expected to reach to $329 billion in 2010. It is expected that online retail sales will represent 13 percent of the total US retail sales in 2010. In the coming quarters company plans to add on more stores and all this sure gives some more hope for company’s top line growth prospects. With this investors can rest as company has more months lined up to improve its top line.

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Avatar FancyGoldfish (97.90) Submitted: 3/26/07 1:38 PM : Outperform Start Price: $32.50 MWRK Score: -32.72

mothers work inc maternity clothes has a few months left of a good run.

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