Best Retail Companies To Buy Right Now

Best Retail Companies To Buy Right Now: Restoration Hardware Hold ings Inc (RH)

Restoration Hardware Holdings, Inc. (Restoration Hardware Holdings), incorporated on August 18, 2011, is a holding company. The Company is merchants of home furnishings. Restoration Hardware Holdings offers merchandise assortments across a number of categories, including furniture, lighting, textiles, bath ware, decor, outdoor, garden, and baby and child products. The Companys business is integrated across its multiple channels of distribution, consists of its stores, catalogs and Websites. As of July 28, 2012, the Companys operated a total of 73 retail stores, consisted of 71 Galleries and two full line Design Galleries, and 10 outlet stores throughout the United States and Canada. RH is a brand in the home furnishings. During the fiscal year ended January 28, 2012 (fiscal 2011), the Company opened five stores and closed 22 stores. In fiscal 2011, the Company distributed approximately 26.1 million catalogs, and its Websites logged over 14.3 million visits.

Restoration Hardware Holdings operates a Website for its Baby & Child brand at www.rhbabyandchild.com. The Company opened its two full line Design Galleries in Los Angeles in, June 2011 and Houston in November 2011. In May 2011, the Company launched catalog applications for Apples iPad and iPhone that enable customers to view and purchase its product assortment. Restoration Hardware Holdings operates three store types: the Company's full line Design Gallery format, approximately between 22,000 and 28,000 gross square feet; its Gallery format of approximately 7,000-15,000 gross square feet, and its Baby & Child Gallery format of approximately 2,000-3,000 gross square feet.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jeremy Bowman]

  After hours, shares ofRestoration Hardware (NYSE: RH  ) were stacking higher, gaining 14% on a blowout earnings report. The home-furnishings retailer pos! ted earnings of $0.18, beating estimates of $0.11, as revenues jumped 21.6% to $366.3 million, well ahead of the consensus at $346.8 million. Comparable brand revenue was up 18%, which includes e-commerce sales, and CEO Gary Friedman said the company outperformed the industry by a "wide margin" and said its real estate transformation was delivering "outstanding" results. The retailer's full-year EPS guidance was also ahead of the Wall Street view at $2.24-$2.30. Shares hit an all-time high after hours, and I'd expect them to continue to grow as the company's brand strength grow and it continues to add new stores.

• [By Brian O'Connell]

  Home furnishing companies are usually a good short-term play as spring starts to bloom.
  
  People are buying and selling homes, the nice weather has homeowners thinking about home improvements, and investment property owners both residential and commercial are looking to spruce up their investments.
  
  Thats all good news for home furnishing companies, which tend to see revenues rise as the ice melts and opening day beckons across U.S. ball fields.
  
  But there is one home furnishings provider that really stands out in the crowd this week, in the key first week of April.
  
  Its Restoration Hardware Holdings (NYSE: RH), and not only are its short-term financial prospects looking as solid as a granite countertop, its long-term prospects look equally strong.
  
  That spells opportunity for investors, so lets dig a little deeper and examine why.
  
  RH bills itself as a retailer of home furnishings, providing bedroom, dining, upholstery, home office, and media furniture products. It also offers cabinets; ceiling, table, floor, wall, and outdoor lighting products; textiles, such as bed linens, bath linens, drapery, rugs, and pillows and throws; and bath ware products comprising faucets, hardware, furniture, and sinks.
  
  That pretty much covers the home furnishings product line from A-to-Z.
  
  The firm has 71 retail stor! es, and 1! 3 outlet stores across the U.S., but it also makes a lot of hay selling items through its catalog and web site outlets. The companys chief competitors include Pier 1 Imports (NYSE: PIR) and Williams-Sonoma (NYSE: WSM).
  
  Financially, investors might have reservations about RH, at first blush. Q4 revenue figures came in slightly less than analysts had forecast ($471 million versus $491 million), but most investors evidently wrote-off the missed forecast due to the historically icy, frosty, snowy, and chilly months of December and January.
  
  But a look inside the nu mbers reveals why the

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  On Friday, investors responded positively to favorable economic news, with favorable readings on personal income and spending pointing to the resiliency of the American consumer, even in the face of tough winter conditions that many businesses have blamed for temporary shortfalls in revenue and earnings. Even though the broader market gave up most of its gains from earlier in the day, GameStop (NYSE: GME  ) , TriNet Group (NYSE: TNET  ) , and Restoration Hardware (NYSE: RH  ) all managed to hold onto large advances in their respective share prices going into the weekend.

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