Williams-Sonoma, Inc. (WSM)
The Company is a retailer of products for the home.
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PdoBear
(96.21)
Submitted: 10/1/2009 1:53:26 PM :
Start Price:
$19.92
WSM Score:
+0.97
Why has my Brookstone catalog stopped coming?
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OldEnglish
(28.56)
Submitted: 8/27/2009 3:07:05 PM :
Start Price:
$17.92
WSM Score:
-10.07
Reload. From a previous post:
"I need some pottery to spruce up my section 8 housing. This thing is finished in five years. Americans, of which I am one, make me laugh."
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4everlost
(96.55)
Submitted: 8/26/2009 12:50:53 PM :
Start Price:
$17.42
WSM Score:
-13.08
WSM recently reported dismal earnings and lower revenue yet the stock price jumped. In fact the stock price has nearly doubled during the last few months. WSM is a provider of non-essential goods to higher income shoppers. They are going to lose a lot of potential customers due to dismal macroeconomic factors.
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AlkaliX
(98.79)
Submitted: 6/17/2009 10:35:37 AM :
Start Price:
$11.88
WSM Score:
-54.50
Isn't much in Williams - but it is pretty. Sonoma - nothing special there unless your a tourist or a crystal rubbing hippy friend of the McCain family. Overall I don't see combining the two will make any money.
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momhere
(< 20)
Submitted: 3/6/2009 1:50:30 PM :
Start Price:
$7.33
WSM Score:
-120.00
Wow - I used to love there stores. Without PB kids, where will I buy my babies 1300 dollar armoire. Note: any stores that sell baby Armoires (other then Ikea) - won't make it.
Mom has spoken.
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jstegma
(99.72)
Submitted: 2/20/2009 8:45:10 AM :
Start Price:
$8.25
WSM Score:
-107.72
Pottery sells garbage for high prices as if it's a luxury item. Eventually this is going to catch up with them.
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srk85
(86.57)
Submitted: 2/11/2009 5:42:22 PM :
Start Price:
$9.07
WSM Score:
-94.45
Retail's in a bad spot. WSM is way overvalued.
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d1david
(99.90)
Submitted: 12/23/2008 10:32:32 PM :
Start Price:
$7.04
WSM Score:
-167.58
starting to scale in some longer term short plays
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Tastylunch
(99.64)
Submitted: 12/21/2008 12:45:43 AM :
Start Price:
$7.62
WSM Score:
-148.31
Luxury retailer that sells easily downtradable kitchen products
Insiders dumping shares like they have the plague (5 million and counting!).
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ronzz
(< 20)
Submitted: 10/31/2008 1:02:56 AM :
Start Price:
$7.78
WSM Score:
-150.26
probably drop to around 5 before becoming a good buy.
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oreo2007
(< 20)
Submitted: 1/15/2008 2:57:56 PM :
Start Price:
$30.50
WSM Score:
+6.12
I guess people can no longer afford those $ 20,000 french stoves anymore. Hell all their stuff is expensive.
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rochet5
(28.41)
Submitted: 9/25/2007 1:51:26 PM :
Start Price:
$28.40
WSM Score:
+2.38
Pure play on the evaporation of home equity. People can't use those HELOC to pay to furnish or upgrade homes.
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CDroz
(77.35)
Submitted: 8/14/2007 1:01:02 PM :
Start Price:
$27.84
WSM Score:
+5.06
People cannot afford homes let alone high end crap to fill the homes they aren't buying.
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ebayer
(< 20)
Submitted: 7/12/2007 5:40:49 PM :
Start Price:
$30.33
WSM Score:
+5.81
POTTERY BARN WHICH IS OWNED BY WILLIAMS SONOMA CORP. AND IS A HUGE PART OF THEIR EARNINGS HAS RECENTLY BANNED ANYONE THEY BELIEVE IS SELLING THEIR ITEMS PURCHASED FROM OUTLETS ON EBAY. ABOUT 200 PEOPLE CURRENTLY DOING THIS THAT ARE BANNED AND THESE PEOPLE SPEND 10-15 MILLION PER YEAR AT THEIR 9 OUTLETS. NOT SURE HOW MUCH THEIR SHAREHOLDERS KNOW OF THIS NEW POLICY IMNPLIMENTED. BUT WON'T BE A SECRET LONG WITH NEWS STARTING TO COVER AND A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN THE WORKS. LOOK OUT STOCKS FOR 3 RD QUARTER.. GOING TO FALL HARSHLY I WOULD SAY!!!!
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SFBAYVIEW
(59.82)
Submitted: 5/11/2007 3:05:11 PM :
Start Price:
$31.92
WSM Score:
+11.67
Going negative on all retail that is going to be ensared by the housing slowdown-collapse.
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speedymarie
(59.57)
Submitted: 1/30/2007 5:21:55 PM :
Start Price:
$31.50
WSM Score:
+15.28
Pottery Barn is dragging down this home retailer brand aggregator. Consumer Reports flogged these overpriced, particle-board furniture retailers last year. WSM denies rumors that it has hired Goldman to sell off some of its brands. If they do hire someone, I'd change my underperform. Yeah, the housing market slump has something to do with this, but really, I think consumers expect more for their money.
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NetscribeRetail
(90.74)
Submitted: 12/29/2006 12:52:12 AM :
Start Price:
$29.38
WSM Score:
+10.83
“Under the eyes of storm “is how you would describe what Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is experiencing at present. It is a US-based home product specialty retailer and has two reportable segments, retail and direct-to-customer through which it offers various products, such as culinary and serving equipment, specialty foods, and cooking ingredients; casual home furnishings, and bed and bath products.
The company caters to upscale consumers, who are less impacted by rising interest rates and fuel cost. This had allowed the company to perform reasonably well until recently, despite unfavorable market conditions and lower than usual consumer traffic. However, this quarter the company reported lower than expected results.
Company’s revenues grew marginally, as Pottery Barn Kids, and Williams-Sonoma brands performed well, which was partially offset by decline in revenues of their pottery Barn Brand, their leading revenue driver. Softening in the home-related retail environment and increased promotional activity by its competitors has been affecting its performance to a large extent.
To cope up with the decline, company has taken some growth initiatives- it recently opened two test stores and also plans to open another store in next quarter. Company is also taking up promotional activities to counter its competitors. It has decided to increase its catalog circulation by approximately 9% in this quarter. This is expected to improve its direct-to-customer segment growth. However, it needs to actualize its growth fast enough to benefit in this highly competitive scenario.
Despite its growth initiatives, it is expected that the unfavorable market conditions and intense competition in the industry will affect company’s growth plans. The company has also lowered its fourth quarter guidance and we believe that in a one-year horizon, the company will perform below the market.
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