{"id":3295,"date":"2008-12-17T12:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T20:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3295"},"modified":"2008-12-17T21:28:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T05:28:23","slug":"nike-and-vf-corp-good-zumiez-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3295","title":{"rendered":"Nike And VF Corp Good, Zumiez Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Citigroup<\/strong> analyst <strong>Kate McShane<\/strong> sent out a note to investors today in which she outlined some stocks to watch and some to run from. Her favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those include sports apparel and footwear maker <strong>Nike Inc.<\/strong>, apparel maker <strong>VF Corp.<\/strong>, sporting goods retailer <strong>Dicks Sporting Goods Inc<\/strong>. and sports apparel and footwear retailer <strong>Foot Locker Inc.<\/strong>, all of which McShane rates &#8220;Buy.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But she&#8217;s not, however, a fan of <strong>Zumiez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Names to avoid include <strong>Liz Claiborne Inc<\/strong>. and <strong>Zumiez Inc<\/strong>., McShane recommended, due to what she considers &#8220;elevated credit risk and uncertainty of business fundamentals.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;re not so sure we agree with your police work there, McShane.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/apwire\/c444789a1aac76de4ec2caa1f23d2227.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Money.cnn.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citigroup analyst Kate McShane sent out a note to investors today in which she outlined some stocks to watch and some to run from. Her favorites: Those include sports apparel and footwear maker Nike Inc., apparel maker VF Corp., sporting goods retailer Dicks Sporting Goods Inc. and sports apparel and footwear retailer Foot Locker Inc., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3338,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3295\/revisions\/3338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}