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May 28, 2019

Shares of Foot Locker (FL, $44.02) plummet after missing Street estimates

Shares of the American sportswear and footwear retailer, Foot Locker, plunged more than 16% on Friday after the shoe retailer reported fiscal first-quarter earnings that missed Wall Street profit and revenue estimates.

Company’s adjusted earnings per share for Q1 stood at $1.53 compared to Wall Street’s estimate of $1.60. While the revenue for the quarter stood at $2.08 billion against the expectation of $2.11 billion, despite the net sales increasing by 2.62% during the quarter.

On an unadjusted basis, Foot Locker reported fiscal first-quarter net income of $172 million, or $1.52 per share, up from $165 million, or $1.38 per share a year earlier.

The main reason for such an unsatisfactory performance of the company is its excessive dependence on major shoe companies like Nike (NKE) who are increasingly bypassing the retailers by directly selling its product to their customers. According to analysts, Foot Locker is excessively dependant on Nike for its sales as the manufacturer accounted for nearly 66% of its sales in fiscal 2018.

The overall situation further worsened as more and more shoppers continued avoiding the retailer, majority of Foot Lockers stores are located in malls, for online shopping.

During the quarter the company also undertook the repurchase of 32,100 shares worth $1.8 million, but which again fell short of the analyst expectations.

With the broader shoe industry facing its own set of challenges, as President Trump has threatened to levy more tariffs on footwear imported from China, the shoe retailers are set for a tough time ahead.

Taking into count the overall situation the company said it now expects its earnings per share to be “up high-single digits” for the year, rather than double-digit growth.

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John Jacques

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May 16, 2022

A.I. Stock Market Predictions: Head & Shoulders

Statistics for the Head-and-Shoulders Bottom Pattern The days where only hedge funds used algorithms to trade stocks are officially over. Now retail investors can use Artificial Intelligence (A.I. Here’s an example of the algorithm in action: Late last year, Tickeron’s A.I.

Edward Flores

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Apr 29, 2022

How to Become the Millionaire Next Door

The Golden Gate Bridge is always a fixture of these walks too, one of man's most beautiful creations. As we were walking, at one point she turned to me and said, "Man, I'll never have a million dollars."" My girlfriend is 27 years old and works as a graphic designer, making about $75,000 a year.

Sergey Savastiouk

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May 16, 2022

When Is the Next Recession Coming?

However, we also know that economists predicted 22 recessions out of 11 that took place since 1945. Are there real recession signs we should watch for?Indeed, the answer is yes, and here are a few very important ones: The first one is almost obvious and known to everyone – it is the Fed.

Sergey Savastiouk

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How to Start Trading Penny Stocks

Penny stocks have long been marginalized within the professional investment community, oftentimes being painted with a broad brush of simply being “too risky.” Leonardo DiCaprio’s depiction of the penny stock peddling conman, Jordan Belfort, in the Wolf of Wall Street certainly didn’t help.Here are four reasons to start trading them now. Reason #1: Let’s State the Obvious -- Penny Stocks are Cheap A single share of Apple Inc. costs over $350.

Dmitry Perepelkin

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Mar 14, 2023

5 Habits that Lead to Successful Investing

To consistently make money in this industry, you need emotional fortitude, an analytical mind, and a willingness to self-reflect. Despite trading and investing being two different activities, these principles can be applied to both.Conversely, investors with good habits often become great traders. Rather than full sentences for titles, we’ve labeled each of our top-five investing habits using a single word principle.

Sergey Savastiouk

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4 Tips for Fast, Effective Stock Analysis

With just a few clicks, an investor can search for individual stocks, categories of stocks, sectors, or investment themes, and then he or she can conduct a full range of technical and fundamental analysis within seconds.All powered by Artificial Intelligence. Below, we give you 5 tips for fast, effective stock analysis using Tickeron’s Screener.

Sergey Savastiouk

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Mar 20, 2023

5 Golden Principles in Investing

You have enough faith in that stock, based on research, that the return will equal or exceed the investment. Do unto others.The principles outlined here will ensure that happens. Principle #1: Diversification Investors can’t be one-dimensional when constructing a portfolio.

Sergey Savastiouk

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The five most important Lessons Learned After 10,000 hours of Trading

Edward Flores

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What's the Difference Between Tokens and Altcoins?

Between their inherently technical nature, multiple varieties and sub-varieties, and endless terminology, cryptocurrency (defined here as digital or virtual currencies that are encrypted using cryptography, powered by the immutable digital ledger known as the blockchain) represents a whole, complex world.All altcoins possess their own blockchain, independent from their source code, that records all transactions of their native coins. Many altcoins are variants, or forks, of Bitcoin that leverage that cryptocurrency’s open-source protocol as the basis.

John Jacques

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Apr 29, 2022

How Machines and Humans Can Work Together

We use devices every day that incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) – to the point where certain actions, like communicating with digital “assistants,” have become second nature.Books and movies tell us that AI will not only replace our jobs, and by extension, our livelihoods – it will eventually replace us, too. While there is historical precedent for job loss following adoption of new technologies, experts insist that we should not be looking at AI as ‘machine versus human,’ but rather as machine plus human.