Pacific Sunwear of California Inc. Message Board

Everyone's blaming the weather. Probably because it was snowing in many parts of the world in mid-April which is not typical. These guys seemed to mainly blame decisions on inventory quantities, which they took responsibility for.

I think it's time someone started asking about Ezra Fitch's comments in 1892!

Presumably, if this company viewed this "controversy" as "material" they would have commented on the call.

"Kids have been saying that Abercrombie isn't cool for a couple of decades now. Maybe it's popular with the uncool kids."

It's funny because it's true. If there's one thing that's safe to say from this clothing-size controversy is that Facebook is uncool. Imagine you're a high school kid who clicked "like" on Abercrombie and now your newsfeed is full of messages how your mom refuses to let her kids shop at ANF over and over. And while we're at it, your newsfeed is filled with all kinds of comments from your mom, as is your Facebook page.

I'll add that parents have been boycotting this company for various reasons for decades. We'll hear an interesting conference call tomorrow to see if this time around they're having any effect.

Thanks for a rare well-thought analysis on a message board. I still disagree, because:

1. You haven't discussed the other numbers, namely five Q of rising SSS, and 7% rising women's SSS.

2. I think analysts ought to have been factoring in the impact of the 53rd week as it's been discussed for some time on all of the various retail conference calls I listen to.

3. If it's profitable, is the fact there's an extra week that big a deal? Further, if that week is good, that means back-to-school will be off to a good start, which hopefully would be a good sign for Q3.

4. I'm guessing they're being conservative in their guidance. I think in the call they mentioned it was based on current trends. I would imagine they can't add a future impact of a Kardashian show mentioning their brand on their show on the company's brand perception among viewers.

At the end of the day, a lot of people want to ignore the meaningless of the derivative liability GAAP "loss." If this was so meaningful, where were you guys pointing out the GAAP "profit" for the 3rd quarter of last year? It's very simple. The company issued warrants giving an affiliate of Golden Gate the right to buy shares at $1.75. When the stock rises above $1.75, they have a paper loss. When it falls below $1.75, they have a gain. This has all been disclosed, so people do your own due diligence to confirm whether what I said is accurate, but my money is on every analyst and institutional investor knows how it works.

You're including the derivative liability in there, which is completely meaningless, because the paper "loss" increases when the stock rises, and decreases when the stock goes down. That's why they look at non-gaap numbers. If you don't understand this, you should really read up on it.

I'm not arguing with anyone. I just posted helpful information for people who read a stock message board actually hoping for any useful information they can further research.
Speaking of research, since it seems you don't know the difference between people who wear hipster and preppy clothing, you can ask a young person who does. Or if you don't know any, you can go to urbandictionary. Then you can post more about "low information crowds" since you will ironically have more information than when you posted your original message.

URBN's core customer (20+ year old hipsters, or "upscale homeless," as their CEO calls them according to buzzfeed), are not the same core customer as ANF (high school/college kids/older European and Asians who can fit into small sizes and like American brands). I'm sure there is overlap, but these companies are targeting very different groups.

Maybe if they weren't reporting earnings after hours that Tuesday theory might mean something. What it does tomorrow depends on whether shorts want to cover before earnings and longs want to hold through earnings, IMO.

Changed mine months ago on all my devices to test it after Microsoft started announcing people liked Bing better in blind tests. I actually don't miss Google. Now it is on very rare occasions when I want more news on a topic that I even go to Google news.

Jeffries apologized on Abercrombie's Facebook page. It's interesting what infuriates people online and what doesn't. As mentioned, I think Jeffries' comments were inappropriate. That said, for contrast checkout the article on Bloomberg "Shoppers Turn Blind Eye to Bangladesh in $6 Bikini Hunt."

Interesting timing. CEO publicly makes inappropriate comments in 2006, and it's suddenly a controversy now. Saw a Bloomberg article indicating how much it would cost to get rid of Jeffries for any potential acquirer vs. how much it would cost to get rid of him for cause. IMHO, an activist investor could now put the heat on to get rid of him. Took a lot less to get rid of Scott Thompson, Yahoo's prior CEO, when SEC documents said he had a computer science degree and he didn't.