{"id":105,"date":"2005-08-11T06:00:43","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T11:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/?p=105"},"modified":"2018-08-12T01:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T06:10:12","slug":"earnings-highlights-aug-11-before-the-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/earnings-highlights-aug-11-before-the-bell\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnings Highlights: Aug 11 Before the Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The top ranking company reporting this morning with a rank of [54\/60] is <strong>Urban Outfitters (URBN),<\/strong> without a doubt the best retailer around with outstanding, consistent growth every quarter for the last 3 years.&nbsp; Management owns a good portion of the company (35%) and institutions continue to initiate new positions.&nbsp; This morning the company is reporting inline at .36\/share which is good for a 49% increase over the year ago period.&nbsp; Total revenue grew 34% with same store sales growth of 10%.&nbsp; The stock is down just a bit in premarket trading.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>The Knot (KNOT)<\/strong> [Rank 50\/60], is an online provider of everything wedding related and certainly a company to keep an eye on.&nbsp; The company went public at the height of the dot com frenzy in December &#8217;99, but didn&#8217;t see its first year in the black  until 2003.&nbsp; It struggled with consistency in 2004, but reported outstanding results for the first quarter in &#8217;05.&nbsp; Expectations are for the company to ramp up growth for &#8217;05 and &#8217;06 and there is no reason to think otherwise with great results posted again this morning.&nbsp; The company beat the estimate of the lone analyst covering the company by .03\/share by reporting .05 share, good for a 400% increase over the year ago period.&nbsp; Revenues increased 25% in the quarter, driven by a 45% increase in advertisement spending.&nbsp; Technically, the stock looks outstanding, although I&#8217;d like to see a bit more consolidation in the handle there.&nbsp; At any rate, results should drive the stock this morning so its worth keeping an eye on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Others reporting (in order of rank)&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Draxis Health (DRAX) &amp; Centennial Communications (CYCL).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top ranking company reporting this morning with a rank of [54\/60] is Urban Outfitters (URBN), without a doubt the best retailer around with outstanding, consistent growth every quarter for the last 3 years.&nbsp; Management owns a good portion of the company (35%) and institutions continue to initiate new positions.&nbsp; This morning the company is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/company-earnings\/earnings-highlights-aug-11-before-the-bell\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earnings Highlights: Aug 11 Before the Bell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-company-earnings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selfinvestors.com\/tradingstocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}