| Ticker symbol | Company | Price as of 9/5/03 | 52-week high | 52-week low | % price change last month | Revenue per share T4Q | % total debt/total capital |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DIRECT TO CONSUMER | |||||||
| FLWS | 1-800-Flowers.com | $9.04 | $10.9 | $5.61 | 1.7% | $8.40 | 11.3% |
| BL | Blair Corp. | 20.93 | 25.45 | 18.25 | (8.6) | 71.69 | 6.1 |
| CWTR | Coldwater Creek | 19.29 | 19.50 | 7.97 | 10.1 | 27.94 | 0 |
| HNV | Hanover Direct | 0.27 | 0.34 | 0.16 | 16.7 | 3.20 | 45.8 |
| JILL | J. Jill Group | 15.90 | 24.90 | 9.51 | 6.4 | 18.22 | 9.8 |
| MBAY | MediaBay | 0.78 | 3.05 | 0.60 | 2.6 | 3.20 | 57.5 |
| SPGLA | Spiegel | 0.04 | 1.20 | 0.03 | (27.3) | 22.53 | 466.8 |
| DIRECT TO CONSUMER | |||||||
| BBOX | Black Box Corp. | $46.80 | $51.39 | $25.58 | 16.3% | $29.07 | 13.9% |
| CDWC | CDW Corp. | 51.13 | 56.58 | 36.30 | 7.9 | 49.61 | 0 |
| HSIC | Henry Schein | 56.99 | 60.32 | 34.17 | (1.2) | 67.24 | 22.5 |
| MSM | MSC Industrial Direct | 21.94 | 23.13 | 9.85 | 8.1 | 12.27 | 0.3 |
| NEB | New England Business Service | 30.70 | 32.00 | 19.99 | 2.6 | 41.39 | 52.4 |
| PCCC | PC Connection | 11.75 | 11.97 | 3.72 | 12.4 | 50.96 | 4.2 |
| MALL | PC Mall | 8.91 | 9.60 | 1.76 | 9.7 | 83.09 | 39.4 |
| PFP | Premier Farnell | 8.29 | 8.75 | 4.25 | 19.6 | 7.84 | 74.9 |
| SCHS | School Specialty | 27.14 | 30.97 | 17.02 | 1.5 | 40.18 | 52.1 |
| SSPY | Sport Supply Group | 1.80 | 2.10 | 1.40 | (4.8) | 11.41 | 31.6 |
| TESS | Tessco Technologies | 10.59 | 13.09 | 6.11 | 28.1 | 61.00 | 20.8 |
| ZONS | Zones | 1.01 | 1.28 | 0.60 | (5.9) | 31.14 | 0.7 |
| Sources: StockVal, Bloomberg | |||||||
August was another solid month for publicly traded catalogers. Fourteen of the 19 companies tracked for Catalog Age by Waukee, IA-based Financial Advisory Partners, or 74% ended the month with gains in value.
Not all of the gains were as dramatic as July’s 76% leap on the part of PC Mall, for instance, or Coldwater Creek’s 30% increase. The biggest gainer was Tessco Technologies, a provider of wireless-communications products and services; its stock price climbed 28%, to $10.59. The industrial supplies company hit a new 52-week high of $8.75 a share on Aug. 26 before dipping slightly to close at $8.29 a share on Sept. 5 — up nearly 20% for the fiscal month.
Among the consumer catalogers, multititle apparel and home goods mailer Hanover Direct showed the greatest gain, nearly 17%. But Hanover was hardly rising from a great height; it closed the month at $0.27 a share, and its 52-week high was only $0.34 a share. The only other consumer stock to post a double-digit gain was women’s apparel cataloger/retailer Coldwater Creek, which rose 10%, to $19.29 a share. Most of its significant gains for the month followed the Aug. 27 release of its strong second-quarter results.
Just as the month’s increases weren’t seismic, neither were the decreases. The biggest loser was, once again, multititle mailer Spiegel, which fell 27% — or a bit more than a penny, to $0.04 a share.