Troubled small cap department store stock J.C. Penney Company, Inc (NYSE: JCP) reported Q1 2017 earnings before the market opened this morning. Earnings will be closely analyzed as J.C. Penney Company would be the 10th most shorted stock on the NYSE with elevated short interest of 38.26% according to Highshortinterest.com as the turnaround effort grinds on.
Q1 net sales were $2.7 billion versus $2.8 billion with comparable store sales being 3.5% for the quarter. Home, Sephora, Fine Jewelry and Salon all comped positively, and were the Company's top performing divisions during the quarter while geographically, the Southwest and Southeast were the best performing regions of the country.
The Company's net loss was $180 million or ($0.58) per share versus $68 million or ($0.22) per share due to the following:
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Shares of Ultra Clean Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ:UCTT) declined 19.2% in July, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence, after the semiconductor equipment specialist announced mixed second-quarter 2018 results and disappointing forward guidance.
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Headlines about Ultra Clean (NASDAQ:UCTT) have been trending somewhat positive on Tuesday, Accern reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than twenty million news and blog sources in real time. Accern ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores nearest to one being the most favorable. Ultra Clean earned a media sentiment score of 0.17 on Accern’s scale. Accern also assigned media stories about the semiconductor company an impact score of 45.3293552269826 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock’s share price in the near term.
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