Pier 1 Imports

The list of bankruptcies this year continues to grow. Casual food chain Ruby Tuesday filed for Chapter 11 protection on Wednesday. The Tennessee-based company became just the latest in a string of major brands to file for bankruptcy in 2020 — a year where virtually every...

Century 21 Department Stores LLC grabbed headlines last week when it confirmed plans to close all 13 of its stores and liquidate assets as part of a chapter 11 process. In doing so, the New York-based company became just the latest in a string of major retailers to file for bankruptcy in 2020...

Pier 1 Imports Inc (NYSE: PIR)'s third-quarter earnings report on Wednesday helped boost the stock higher by more than 30 percent. Daniel Binder of Jefferies commented in a research report following the earnings release that Pier 1 Imports' earnings beat was a direct result of strong post-election...

Upcoming earnings highlights include the latest results from two consumer goods giants. Consensus Wall Street forecasts see lower earnings from each of them. But only one of them is expected to show some growth on the top line. In another quiet week on the earnings front, reports from consumer...

Wall Street is looking for solid quarterly results from FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) this week. Expectations are lower for earnings from Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) and Rite Aid Corporation (NYSE: RAD). The consensus forecast calls for another net loss from BlackBerry Ltd (NASDAQ: BBRY). As...

Wall Street is looking for strong quarterly results from Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) and Ciena Corporation (NYSE: CIEN) this week. Year-on-year earnings growth is also anticipated from Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST). However, mixed results are forecast for H & R...

As the calendar quarter winds down, it will be another fairly quiet week on the earnings front. Wall Street analysts by and large expect to see at least a little growth in earnings from packaged foods giants ConAgra Foods Inc (NYSE: CAG) and General Mills, Inc. (NYSE: GIS) when they share their...

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Scheduled quarterly reports from BlackBerry (NASDAQ: BBRY), FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Kroger (NYSE: KR), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD) and will highlight the coming week on the earnings front. Analysts are looking for year-over-year growth on the top and bottom lines for all of them,...

This week brings the first-quarter report from Alcoa (NYSE: AA), the traditional kickoff of a new earnings season. But its relevance may be diminishing, now that the company is no longer part of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. With the end-of-the-week earnings reports from J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM...

Highlights on the earnings front this week will be the reports from FedEx (NYSE: FDX) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL). Analysts are looking for marginal year-over-year growth of earnings and revenues from both of them. Others on deck to share quarterly results this week include General Mills (NYSE: GIS),...

The new earnings season gets underway this week, with Alcoa (NYSE: AA) on deck late Monday and J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) scheduled to report first-quarter results Friday morning. By and large, analysts expect to see a year-over-year decline in per-share earnings from the former, but EPS growth,...

Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR), which recently announced a strong start to the holiday shopping season, is scheduled to report its third-quarter fiscal 2013 results Thursday, December 13, before the markets open. Investors will be looking to see if anything has changed since the recently announced...