SHU Portfolio; And Another Buying Opportunity In Skechers

  • Management prefers growth over margins, and they are right to do so and can easily invest in growth, given their extremely solid balance sheet and cash generation.
  • Yet, they haven’t fulfilled their last year’s prediction that this year operational margins would recover, and investors are paying a price for that.
  • There are also some risks emerging in the international climate, but if these don’t escalate, we think the shares will slowly recover.
  • While most of the disappointments was because of ongoing investment in growth, there were also some other factors at work like higher taxes.

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