Knowing that my favorite Clothier is Mill's Fleet and Farm, I hope you will forgive me for not knowing much about the retail apparel industry. It has been stated by the stock analysts that URBN's 'growth spurt' has come to an end. Sometimes these companies manage to successfully reinvent themselves, sometimes not.
The Value Line "Highest Growth Stocks" list tends to be retrospective in that it requires companies to have achieved a solid 10 years of growth history across many accounting benchmark targets. They then speculate that the trend will continue for another 3-5 years. In the mean time I guess I'll have to let Mr. Lichello handle the investment until such time as it falls from VL's list.
Thanks for the comments; they are much appreciated as I'm almost purely ignorant of the world of retail. URBN is one of ten holdings in a specialized portfolio. The attempt was to not have more than one holding in a single business category. That's part of why URBN is there.
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