VFC offers outdoor, merino wool and other natural fibers-based, lifestyle and casual apparel; footwear; equipment; accessories; outdoor-inspired, performance-based, youth culture/action sports-inspired, streetwear and protective work footwear; handbags, luggage, backpacks and totes; and work and work-inspired lifestyle apparel and footwear.
The company provides its products under the North Face, Timberland, Smartwool, Icebreaker, Altra, Vans, Supreme, Kipling, Napapijri, Eastpak, JanSport, Dickies and Timberland PRO brand names. The company sells its products primarily to specialty stores, department stores, national chains and mass merchants, as well as through direct-to-consumer operations, including retail stores, concession retail stores and e-commerce sites and other digital platforms.
Shareholders will gladly take the 7.39% dividend. Baird has a $42 target price on VFC stock. The consensus target is just $30.43, while Thursday’s closing share price was $29.45.
Walgreens
This huge drugstore chain operator is a safe retail play for investors looking to add health care now. Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA) operates as a pharmacy-led health and beauty retail company. It operates through three segments.
The Retail Pharmacy USA segment sells prescription drugs and an assortment of retail products, including health, wellness, beauty, personal care, consumable, and general merchandise products through its retail drugstores. It also provides specialty pharmacy services and mail services; this segment operates nearly 10,000 retail stores under the Walgreens and Duane Reade brands in the United States; and six specialty pharmacies.
The Retail Pharmacy International segment sells prescription drugs and health and wellness, beauty, personal care and other consumer products through its pharmacy-led health and beauty stores and optical practices, as well as online and an integrated mobile application. This segment operated 4,428 retail stores under the Boots, Benavides and Ahumada in the United Kingdom, Thailand, Norway, the Netherlands, Mexico and elsewhere, and 550 optical practices, including 165 on a franchise basis.
The Pharmaceutical Wholesale segment engages in the wholesale and distribution of specialty and generic pharmaceuticals, health and beauty products, and home health care supplies and equipment, as well as provides related services to pharmacies and other health care providers.
Walgreens Boots Alliance stock comes with a 5.45% dividend. Cowen’s $54 target price compares with a $42.47 consensus target. The shares were last seen on Thursday trading at $35.19, which was down over 6% on the day despite beating earnings on a big opioid settlement.
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