DALLAS, Sept. 16, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BeaconEquity.com announces an investment report featuring automotive retail company Pep Boys-Manny Moe & Jack (NYSE:PBY). The report includes financial, comparative and investment analyses, and pertinent industry information you need to know to make an educated investment decision.
The investment report on Pep Boys-Manny Moe & Jack (NYSE:PBY) should be of particular interest to other automotive retail companies: Advance Auto Parts Inc. (NYSE:AAP), AutoZone Inc. (NYSE:AZO) and O'Reilly Automotive Inc. (Nasdaq:ORLY).
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Pep Boys-Manny, Moe & Jack (PBY) operates a chain of retail stores offering automotive service, tires, parts and accessories to the "do-it-yourself" customer. Additionally, the Company operates SUPERCENTERS, which services both the do-it-yourself and the "do-it-for-me" DIFM customers. The SUPERCENTERS also offer a commercial sales program that provides credit tires and parts to unaffiliated automobile repair shops.
In the report, the analyst notes:
"The Company's latest earnings release for the second quarter ended August 1, 2009, showed net income increased to $7.7 million, compared with $5.4 million for the same period last year. Revenue dropped 2% to $488.9 million, while earnings per share was 15 cents, up from 10 cents a year ago. The mean analysts' estimate polled by Thomson Reuters was for $502.4 million of revenue and an EPS of 14 cents per share.
"The Company said that discretionary spending at its stores is down, and will focus its efforts on delivering appropriate products and services to value-minded consumers. The Company plans to rollout more service and tire centers, which it believes will provide an EBITDA of approximately $150,000 per center, annually."
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