Top 5 Clean Energy Stocks To Invest In 2016

Top 5 Clean Energy Stocks To Invest In 2016: Williams-Sonoma Inc.(WSM)

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. operates as a specialty retailer of home products. It offers culinary and serving equipment, including cookware, cookbooks, cutlery, informal dinnerware, glassware, table linens, specialty foods, and cooking ingredients; and bridal and gift items under the Williams-Sonoma brand name. The company also provides home furnishing categories, including furniture, textiles, decorative accessories, lighting, and tabletop items under the West Elm brand name; bed and bath products under the Pottery Barn brand name; and children?s furnishings and accessories under the Pottery Barn Kids brand name. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. sells its home products through four retail store concepts, which include Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, and West Elm; six direct-mail catalogs that comprise Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Bed and Bath, PBteen, and West Elm; and six e-commerce Websites, which consist of williams-sonoma.com, potte rybarn.com, potterybarnkids.com, pbteen.com, westelm.com, and wshome.com. As of January 30, 2011, it operated 592 stores, including 260 Williams-Sonoma, 193 Pottery Barn, 85 Pottery Barn Kids, 36 West Elm, and 18 outlet stores located in 44 states of the United States; Washington, D.C.; Canada; and Puerto Rico. The company was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Peter Graham]

  The Q3 2014 earnings report for large cap home decor retailer Bed Bath & Beyond Inc (NASDAQ: BBBY), a potential peer of other furniture or home décor retailers like mid cap Williams-Sonoma, Inc (NYSE: WSM) and small caps Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc (NYSE: RH) and Pier 1 Imports Inc (NYSE: PIR), is scheduled for after the market closes on Thursday (January 8th). Aside from the Bed Bath &am! p; Beyond earnings report, it should be said that Williams-Sonoma, Inc reported Q3 2014 earnings on November 19th (they beat expectations when revenues grew 8.7% to $1.143 billion and EPS increased 17.2% to $0.68); Restoration Hardware Holdings Inc reported Q3 2014 earnings on December 10th (revenues increased 22% to $484.7 million and adjusted net income increased 56% to $20.3 million); and Pier 1 Imports Inc reported Q3 2015 earnings on December 18th (sales were up 4.1% to $484.5 million and net income was $17.9 million verses $26.8 million).

• [By Omar Venerio]

  The first on the list is Williams-Sonoma Inc. (WSM), in which the fund disclosed a $326.3 million stake with 4.9 million shares. This stake represents 44.5% of the total portfolio. The company increased its e-commerce business. The key drivers of last year´s profitability were the new efficiencies reached in its worldwide supply chain, the increased traffic as well as the higher sales per square foot in retail stores.

• [By Grace L. Williams]

  It wouldn’t be much of a shock. In an article earlier today, MarketWatch reporter Andria Cheng notes that industry rivals including Pier 1 Imports (PIR), the Container Store (TCS) and Williams-Sonoma (WSM) lowered their profit or sales outlooks. Cheng also notes that Bed Bach & Beyond had cut its outlook in June to $1.08 a share from $1.16. She continues:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  Shares of Williams-Sonoma (WSM) have tumbled today after the home-products retailer offered a disappointing outlook even as it met second-quarter earnings forecasts.

  Williams-Sonoma reported a profit of 53 cents a share, in line with estimates, on revenue of $1.04 billion, also meeting expectations. That alone would probably have been enough to send Williams-Sonoma’s shares lower since they were trading near a 52-week high right before the release. Throw in the sour guidance–Williams-Sonoma expected to earn $3.07 to $3.17 a share i! n 2014, b! elow forecasts for $3.21–and you have the recipe for destruction.

  Williams-Sonoma’s shares have dropped 11% to $66.75 at 10:20 a.m. Morgan Stanley’s Simeon Gutman and team explain why they downgraded Williams-Sonoma’s shares to Equal Weight despite the stock getting pounded today:

  While Q2 EPS was solid and in-line, we were expecting a carry-over in top-line momentum from previous quarters and comparable brand growth in the high single digits. We did not get this (Q2 comparable brand growth +5.7%), due to competition and tougher compares and now no longer believe the business will generate this level of growth in the near-term. Valuation (19x 2015e earnings) is not as supportive of a business that we now see generating low teens growth over the next 12 months.

  Williams-Sonoma’s PEG rate was elevated recently given positive earnings surprises. The PEG rate rose to ~1.6x vs. the one year average at 1.45x and the three year average of 1.3x. With earnings growth accelerating, this seemed appropriate and we believed these valuation levels would continue. But, with the rate of change moderating (albeit still healthy) the PEG may come back in. Even after tonight's stock move, there could be 2 turns of EPS multiple risk. The stock does not necessarily have much downside, but it could mark time as near-term earnings growth is digested.

  Gutman also lowere

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