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Highest Gross Margin in the Apparel Retail Industry Detected in Shares of Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF, JOSB, CHS, DEST, ANN)

Written on Tue, 11/01/2011 - 4:55am
By Amy Schwartz

Below are the top five companies in the Apparel Retail industry as ranked by gross margin. Gross Margin tells you how many of your sales dollars are profit. If efficiency is improved, more profits will result.
Abercrombie & Fitch (NYSE:ANF) has gross margin of 63.6%, a sales growth of 22.9%, and trailing 12 months sales of $3.8 billion.
JOS A Bank Clothiers (NASDAQ:JOSB) has gross margin of 62.4%, a sales growth of 22.4%, and trailing 12 months sales of $915.5 million.
Chico's FAS (NYSE:CHS) has gross margin of 56.1%, a sales growth of 18.5%, and trailing 12 months sales of $2 billion.
Destination Maternity (NASDAQ:DEST) has gross margin of 55.2%, a sales growth of 3.3%, and trailing 12 months sales of $540.2 million.
AnnTaylor Stores (NYSE:ANN) has gross margin of 55%, a sales growth of 15.5%, and trailing 12 months sales of $2.1 billion.
SmarTrend currently has shares of Destination Maternity in an Uptrend and issued the Uptrend alert on October 07, 2011 at $14.60. The stock has risen 13.5% since the Uptrend alert was issued.

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Ticker(s): ANF JOSB CHS DEST ANN

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