| Founded in 1973, Men's Wearhouse is one of North America's largest specialty retailers of men's apparel with 1,766 stores. The Men's Wearhouse, Jos. A. Bank, Moores and K&G stores carry a full selection of suits, sport coats, furnishings and accessories in exclusive and non-exclusive merchandise brands. Additionally, Men's Wearhouse operates a global corporate apparel and workwear group consisting of Twin Hill in the United States and Dimensions, Alexandra and Yaffy in the United Kingdom. |  |
The Company
| The Men’s Wearhouse, Inc. (MW), together with its subsidiaries, operates as a specialty apparel retailer in the United States and Canada. The company operates through two segments, Retail and Corporate Apparel. It provides suits, suit separates, sport coats, slacks, sportswear, outerwear, dress shirts, shoes, and accessories for men, as well as offers tuxedo rentals. The company also provides ladies’ career apparel, sportswear, and accessories; and children’s apparel. The Men's Wearhouse also sells its products through the internet at menswearhouse.com. In addition, it provides corporate clothing uniforms and workwear to workforces under the Dimensions, Alexandra, and Yaffy brands through managed corporate accounts, catalogs, and the Internet in the United Kingdom; and is involved in the retail dry cleaning, laundry, and heirlooming operations. The company was founded in 1973 and is based in Houston, Texas. (Daily Chart) (Weekly Chart) | 23 August 2014 Price $54.20 1yr Target $65.25 Analysts 4 1yr Cap Gain 20.38% Dividend $0.72 Yield 1.32% 1yr Tot Return 21.70% Payout Ratio 51.06% Beta 1.21 EPS (ttm) $1.41 EPS next yr $3.79 P/E 38.44 PEG 4.63 ROA 6.40% ROE 9.80% |
The company operates under the names Men's Wearhouse, K&G Superstores (an off-price retail chain featuring discontinued items), Moores Clothing for Men (a Canadian chain of men's clothing stores), Twin Hill Corporate clothing and MW Cleaners in the Houston Area.
The Fundamentals
| Year 2016 Est 2015 Est 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 | Revenues $3.69 Bil $3.51 Bil $2.47 Bil $2.48 Bil $2.38 Bil $2.10 Bil $1.90 Bil $1.97 Bil $2.11 Bil $1.88 Bil $1.72 Bil $1.54 Bil $1.39 Bil | Earnings $3.79 $2.79 $1.70 $2.55 $2.30 $1.27 $0.88 $1.13 $2.73 $2.71 $1.88 $1.29 $0.84 | Dividends $1.14 $0.84 $0.72 $0.72 $0.54 $0.39 $0.30 $0.28 $0.19 $0.20 $0.05 N/A N/A | Payout Ratio 30.07% 30.10% 42.35% 28.23% 23.47% 30.70% 34.09% 24.77% 6.95% 7.38% 2.65% N/A N/A |
| Revenue Growth Rate 3 year = 5.50% 5 year = 4.62% 10 year = 5.91% | Earnings Growth Rate 3 year = 10.10% 5 year = 8.51% 10 year = 7.30% | Dividend Growth Rate 3 year = 22.42% 5 year = 20.79% 8 year = 39.57% |
The Technicals
Looking at the charts below it's fairly obvious that this stock is for those traders that look to buy and hold for a very long time or for those traders that are very short term oriented and very nimble. Most traders fall between these two extremes this stock may just have too much volatility for those traders. That said, this stock is rising on the daily chart and falling on the weekly chart, so an investor's trading horizon will dictate which side of the trade they are on. For most traders, the sidelines is the best place to be.
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The Competition
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc. is part of the Apparel Stores Industry which is part of the Services Sector of the economy. Below are a few of the major corporations included in this industry. They are listed in the order of their market capitalization.
Conclusion
I like this company more than I like the stock. As can be seen above, the entire industry contains a number of companies and some of them offer a more compelling story for an investor. The estimates look great but they're based on the average of only 4 analysts so their validity is suspect. I generally like to see twice that many analysts in order to have more confidence in their estimates. I'll probably continue to monitor this stock for some time and if the forward estimates are validated, I may begin to accumulate a position in this company. For now, I'm more interested in The Gap, L Brands, and Ross Stores.
The Live Interactive Chart
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