What Caleres Investors Should Keep in Mind

By Blake Campbell • Thursday, September 07 12:17 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Caleres, a Footwear & Accessories company whose shares moved -1.3% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Caleres has moved 7.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.0%
CAL has an average analyst rating of buy and is -18.87% away from its mean target price of $33.75 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $4.13
Caleres has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 6.6 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $4.64 and its forward P/E ratio is 5.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.02 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Caleres is part of the Consumer Discretionary sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 22.33 and an average P/B of 3.12
CAL has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -31.4% and gross profit margins of 0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $141.15 Million, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Caleres, Inc. engages in the retail and wholesale of footwear business in the United States, Canada, Eastern Asia, and internationally. It operates through Famous Footwear and Brand Portfolio segments. The company offers licensed, branded, and private-label athletic, casual, and dress footwear products. The company provide brand name athletic, casual, and dress shoes, including Nike, Skechers, adidas, Vans, Crocs, Converse, Puma, Birkenstock, New Balance, Under Armour, Dr. Martens, Asics, Timberland, Bearpaw, Skechers, HeyDude, Franco Sarto, Rykä, Vince, Bzees, Veronica Beard, and Zodiac brands, as well as company-owned and licensed brands, such as LifeStride, Dr. Scholl's Shoes, Blowfish Malibu, and Naturalizer. The company also operates naturalizer.com, naturalizer.ca, vionicshoes.com, samedelman.com, allenedmonds.com, drschollsshoes.com, lifestride.com, francosarto.com, ryka.com, bzees.com, and zodiacshoes.com, as well as Vince.com, blowfishshoes.com, and veronicabeard.com websites. In addition, it designs, sources, manufactures, and markets footwear to retail stores, such as online retailers, national chains, department stores, mass merchandisers, and independent retailers. Further, the company wholesales men's apparel, leather goods, and accessories under the Allen Edmonds brand; footwear for women under LifeStride brand; Italian footwear Franco Sarto brand; athletic footwear for women under the Rykä brand; women's shoe collection under the Vince brand; and women's footwear under the Bzees brand; other footwear under Zodiac brand; and women's footwear collection under Veronica Beard brand, as well as Via Spiga brand. The company was formerly known as Brown Shoe Company, Inc. and changed its name to Caleres, Inc. in May 2015. The company was founded in 1878 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.

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