[Business Wire] - ATLANTA----HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. reports second quarter 2010 operating results, with increased sales of 11.9%, solid gross profit margins and leveraging of operating costs.
HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. (NYSE: HVT and HVT.A) reports second quarter 2010 operating results, with increased sales of 11.9%, solid gross profit margins and leveraging of operating costs. 2010 08 04 18:05
HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. (NYSE: HVT and HVT.A) will release second quarter 2010 financial results on Wednesday evening, August 4, 2010. In conjunction with the release, Havertys will hold a 2010 07 29 17:00
HAVERTY FURNITURE COMPANIES, INC. (NYSE: HVT and HVT.A) today reported sales for the quarter ended June 30, 2010. Havertys' sales for the second quarter 2010 increased 11.9% to $145.1 million, 2010 07 08 07:30
Wondering which industries are seeing the highest levels of short interest? We've crunched the numbers, and have compiled a few visualizations to give you perspective on the data.
All industries have been sorted in terms of average short float (i.e. the percentage of shares outstanding that has been shorted, using an arithmetic average). The list below displays the 5 most shorted industries in our universe, based on July 14 data.
Goldman Sachs is out with its latest hedge fund trend monitor report and tit has highlighted some key takeaways from the slew of fourth quarter SEC filings and portfolio disclosures. Focusing on hedge fund exposure to equities, Goldman notes a broad trend of rotation into industrials and out of information technology. Goldman interestingly notes that this is the first time since 2005 that hedge funds are underweight IT.
First Coverage Sell-Side Sentiment declined last week by the largest percentage since this rally began in early March., dropping 1.7%. The conundrum facing those of us that follow this indicator is that for the last two years we have labelled any week over week move greater than 2.0% as ‘significant’. So, the question for those that are eager to sell this market short today is…what’s 0.3% matter in the scheme of things? We’ll get to that in a minute.
In a recent edition of Value Investor Insight, Wil Harkey of Nantahala Capital explained why his firm is short Haverty Furniture (HVT). Key excerpts follow:
Turning to a short idea, what’s the bear case for Haverty Furniture [HVT]?
As discretionary consumer spending gets squeezed, Audit Integrity expects companies in the sector with poor corporate governance characteristics to perform worse than those that are more transparently and conservatively managed.
Ironically, consumer companies that have scored low on Audit Integrity’s corporate governance rankings have outperformed the top rank group over the past year.
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As discretionary consumer spending gets squeezed, Audit Integrity expects companies in the sector with poor corporate governance characteristics to perform worse than those that are more transparently and conservatively managed.
