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Business Insider
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
TD Cowen Keeps Their Buy Rating on Lululemon Athletica (LULU)
In a report released today, John Kernan from TD Cowen maintained a Buy rating on Lululemon Athletica (LULU – Research Report), with a price target of $373.00. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Kernan is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 10.3% and a 54.47% success rate. Kernan covers the Consumer Cyclical sector, focusing on stocks such as Dick's Sporting Goods, Ralph Lauren, and Burlington Stores. In addition to TD Cowen, Lululemon Athletica also received a Buy from Stifel Nicolaus's Jim Duffy in a report issued on May 30. However, on May 29, Citi maintained a Hold rating on Lululemon Athletica (NASDAQ: LULU). Based on Lululemon Athletica's latest earnings release for the quarter ending February 2, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $3.61 billion and a net profit of $748.4 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $3.21 billion and had a net profit of $669.47 million
Business Insider
3 days ago
- Business
- Business Insider
TD Cowen Remains a Buy on PVH (PVH)
TD Cowen analyst John Kernan maintained a Buy rating on PVH (PVH – Research Report) today and set a price target of $113.00. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter According to TipRanks, Kernan is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 10.3% and a 54.47% success rate. Kernan covers the Consumer Cyclical sector, focusing on stocks such as Dick's Sporting Goods, Ralph Lauren, and Burlington Stores. In addition to TD Cowen, PVH also received a Buy from Needham's Tom Nikic in a report issued on May 30. However, on the same day, Citi maintained a Hold rating on PVH (NYSE: PVH). Based on PVH's latest earnings release for the quarter ending February 2, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $2.37 billion and a net profit of $157.2 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $2.49 billion and had a net profit of $271.8 million
RTÉ News
4 days ago
- Sport
- RTÉ News
Dublin and Armagh
Over playing and management careers with their native counties that, when combined, comes up just short of half a century, Armagh's Kieran McGeeney and Dublin's Dessie Farrell have come into championship opposition for a scant 140 minutes plus change. The two bosses, who formed a faithful bond as former Na Fianna team-mates and early GPA representatives, will do battle in the All-Ireland round-robin in Sunday at Croke Park in what will be just the sixth championship meeting between the counties. It's perhaps not too surprising given Dublin's standing as a GAA giant and Armagh's as a footballing half pint – until recent times anyway – but a low figure nonetheless with the Orchard County's few peaks aligning with the Metropolitans' few troughs. Prior to 2001, when backdoor football came into the equation, Armagh had nine runs in the All-Ireland series and only twice did Dublin triumph in Leinster in the same year. That led to the first of their championship clashes as both won provincial championships in 1902 but things were never simple back then. The match itself was only played in June 1904 and Dublin were represented by Wicklow outfit Bray Emmets, who had co-opted in the best club players from the capital. Hosted in Drogheda, the Armagh team were accompanied by bands and pipers but it would have been laments on the special train home as Dublin eased to victory. Some 75 years would pass before their championship paths crossed again, this time in the 1977 All-Ireland final. Another mismatch, Joe Kernan's two fine goals taking some of the embarrassment off the scoreline for the Ulster side. Kernan's championship history with Dublin wasn't finished there and he oversaw Armagh's first win in the fixture – a seminal 2002 All-Ireland semi-final win. Croke Park manager Peter McKenna had estimated 120,000 tickets could have been sold for the game and in an unusual move, after pressure from the Ulster side and approval from Gardaí, 10% of Armagh's 20,000 allocation was for Hill 16 with a visible orange swathe splitting the usual sky blue print. Level at the break, Cavan's Gearoid McKiernan amongst the youngsters participating in the half-time Go Games, Kernan whipped out his 1977 All-Ireland final jersey and asked his squad did they want one for themselves. Kernan always felt a jersey was a special thing and swapping it with an opponent turned his stomach. "I see it like a Western; I'm not going to give my scalp to f***ing someone else," he said in a book 20 years later. Paddy McKeever and Ciaran Whelan exchanged goals inside a minute in a manic second half before Ray Cosgrove's late free into the Hill rebounded off the post and Armagh were on their way to Sam. The following year, as champions, they returned to Croke Park and ended Dublin's season with a 0-15 to 0-11 qualifier win making it two wins for two for McGeeney against Farrell and co. McKeever was sent off early in the second half when Dublin led by four, but a red card for Stephen Cluxton for petulantly kicking out at Stevie McDonnell swung momentum back Armagh's way. Afterwards, Dublin manager Tommy Lyons took aim at his goalkeeper and it was reported Cluxton was close to walking away with a number of League of Ireland clubs circling. How GAA history may have changed if he had followed through on those thoughts. The last meeting of the counties came back in 2010. Down legend Paddy O'Rourke was managing Armagh but was never really accepted, while Dublin were trying to bounce back from their "startled earwigs" loss to Kerry the year before. Bernard Brogan's nine points proved decisive in his breakout season with Brian Mallon's goal chance cleared off the line with nine minutes to go when Armagh were just a point behind. A dull enough affair for a rivalry that has had plenty of spark and sparkle despite its small sample size. Championship games may be few and far between but McGeeney and Farrell have used their close kinship to regularly arrange challenge games between the counties. The latter wasn't in charge in an infamous challenge game in 2016 that saw Dublin's Davy Byrne suffer a broken nose prior to throw in. At Croke Park on Sunday, the stakes will be ramped up and there could be fireworks on the field. Just don't expect them on the sideline.
The Irish Sun
7 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Aaron Kernan backs Armagh to stun Dublin but he'll need RTÉ radio to hear it
AARON KERNAN was still motoring with Armagh when they last collided with Dublin in the Championship. But with a drive home from Dr Hyde Park to be tackled, the former Orchard ace admits he will be depending on 2 Aaron Kernan reckons Armagh will beat Dublin in this weekend's Championship clash 2 The former Armagh star revealed why he'll have to listen to the clash on the radio As defence coach with Sligo, a showdown with a different Leinster opponent will be Kernan's top priority on Sunday afternoon as the Yeats men face Kildare in a Tailteann Cup tie in Roscommon. Still, the 2005 Young Footballer of the Year hopes to be back in the car in time to follow events from Croke Park over the airwaves. And the journey to Bernard Brogan played a leading role for the Sky Blues in the 2010 All-Ireland third-round qualifier, racking up 0-9 as they ran out 0-14 to 0-11 winners. READ MORE ON GAA There were parallels too with the current campaign as Dublin were still healing from a shock Leinster Kernan recalled: "They were in an unusual place. That was the year they shipped the five goals against Meath. "So they were trying to find their feet between being defensively solid and not taking away from what their strengths were in an attacking sense. 'Looking back now, or even at the time, I'm not sure that we had the genuine confidence or belief within our group that we were capable of going and beating Dublin in Croke Park. Most read in GAA Football 'I think maybe if it had been a home game at that stage in the Athletic Grounds, we might have been the sort of team that could have performed an ambush. But the genuine belief wasn't there within us.' En route to claiming the Sam Maguire for the first time in their history, Armagh were steered to victory over Dublin by Kernan's father Joe in the 2002 All-Ireland semi-finals. RTE pundit Joe Canning urges GAA to make huge change for Leinster hurling final as fans 'totally agree' With the two games drawing a combined attendance of 142,529 to HQ, the Ulster side prevailed again when the teams contested a qualifier the following summer. As Armagh continue their All-Ireland title defence against a Dublin side buoyed by their win over last year's runners-up Galway, Kernan expects a much greater turn-out this weekend than the 25,947 that attended the 2010 clash. He continued: 'I know it certainly wasn't the same spectacle that there was in 2002, 2003 in that qualifier game, or that All-Ireland semi-final where they played Dublin in packed Croke Parks and even league games at that stage. 'The 2003 league game, I think there were 82,000 people at it at the start of January, so they were the good times in Armagh football and good times in Ireland as a whole in terms of crowds that were turning out. 'But you'd have to think, given the Armagh support and how well they travel in numbers, and particularly Dublin, what they've given their fans, you'd hope again that if you had 50,000-plus, it would still be a brilliant spectacle. 'I think the Leinster final with 60,000 there showed that when you have a good contest and you have a crowd there, Croke Park fairly comes alive. Ultimately that's what players want, that's what you thrive on and that's what all the sacrifice is being done for. It's big days like that." Another agonising Ulster final defeat to Donegal was put to one side by Armagh as they made a winning start in the so-called Group of Death by holding off a late comeback from Derry. After their bid for a 15th Leinster title on the bounce was foiled by Meath, Dublin also needed an emphatic response when they went to Salthill. And Kernan admits to being 'very impressed' by the manner in which Dessie Farrell's side eked out a one-point win on a day when leading roles were played by the likes of Con O'Callaghan and Ciarán Kilkenny. He said: 'You were sort of wondering where they were at after going out against Meath. Obviously the key personnel that they would have lost from last year. "You were sort of wondering who was going to pick up the pieces or was there going to be a genuine confidence within the group that they could turn it around themselves. 'To be fair, that was the biggest thing that stood out – the desire to go and do the dirty stuff that they had across the board. But it was led by their key people, particularly the likes of Con and Ciarán Kilkenny. 'So it was very, very impressive for them to go away and absolutely what was a very tough group got a hell of a lot tougher. 'That one is going to go right down to the wire – there's no doubt about that. That'll be the last kick of the game in both of those final days to see who even makes it out for the preliminary quarter-final, never mind going straight to a quarter-final." It was fellow Armagh man Tony McEntee who opened the door for Kernan to get involved in coaching at inter-county level for the first time as he joined the Sligo set-up for 2025. SLIGO ROLE And he is revelling in the role as they prepare for the meeting with Kildare, which is a straight shoot-out for top spot in Group 1 and a direct ticket to a Tailteann quarter-final. The Crossmaglen Rangers man said: 'A super group to be involved in. Mad keen to learn and keen to improve not only themselves. "But the county as a whole, because they've been making great strides, particularly with what they've been doing at underage and club level. 'So it's been brilliant to be part of that in terms of where we are at the moment obviously. "The two wins in the Tailteann Cup sets us off nicely for a table-top clash against Kildare, so after a poor league start, I think we learned – well. "I learned – a huge amount in terms of a coaching point of view, in terms of setbacks, and then really since then the whole group has been in an upward trajectory. 'But across the board, certainly an enjoyable and valuable learning experience personally.' *AARON KERNAN was speaking in his role as a BoyleSports ambassador.
Irish Daily Mirror
7 days ago
- Sport
- Irish Daily Mirror
Armagh minds will have been drifting towards Dubs clash says former Orchard star
Aaron Kernan reckons that Armagh minds may have been drifting towards Dublin even before they played Derry last weekend. Despite Armagh leading by 13 points at one stage on Saturday, a couple of Derry goals made for an uncomfortable finish at the Athletic Grounds, though the All-Ireland champions held out for a four-point win in the end. The nature of the round robin stage is that upcoming games are already in the diary and Armagh's second round trip to Croke Park had an allure about it as soon as the groups were finalised. It gets the juices flowing for all sorts of reasons, not least because it's a meeting of the last two All-Ireland winners but the rival managers, Kieran McGeeney and Dessie Farrell, have a shared history having played club football together in the capital for Na Fianna. Kernan said: 'It's a difficult one because you're always preparing for Championship and you sort of just know your next game. Whereas Dublin, Croke Park, big crowds, it's very hard not to let your mind drift forward a week.' The counties met in two high profile Championship games in 2002 and '03, both won by Armagh when McGeeney and Farrell were involved as players. Indeed, Stephen Cluxton played in those games and was famously sent off in the 2003 qualifier. He is expected to start on Sunday, 22 years on. Kernan's father Joe was Armagh manager at the time though he didn't come into the side until the following year and so just missed out on those clashes, with his only Championship meeting with Dublin being a relatively low key qualifier at Croke Park in 2010 which the home side won by three points. At that stage, Armagh were very much a fading force while Dublin were finding their feet under Pat Gilroy in what was a rare trip through the back door for them. 'They were in an unusual place,' Kernan recalled. 'That was the year they shipped the five goals against Meath, so they were trying to find their feet between being defensively solid and not taking away from what their strengths were in an attacking sense. 'Looking back now, or even at the time, I'm not sure that we had the genuine confidence or belief within our group that we were capable of going and beating Dublin in Croke Park. 'I think maybe if it had been a home game at that stage in the Athletic Grounds, we might have been the sort of team that could have performed an ambush. But the genuine belief wasn't there within us. 'I know it certainly wasn't the same spectacle that there was in 2002, 2003 in that qualifier game or that All-Ireland semi-final where they played Dublin in packed Croke Parks and even League games at that stage.' Indeed, the meeting of the counties in the 2003 League opener drew a whopping 54,000 to Croke Park, with Armagh winning well. Kernan added: 'They were the good times in Armagh football and good times in Ireland as a whole in terms of crowds that were turning out. 'But you'd have to think, given the Armagh support and how well they travel in numbers, and particularly Dublin, what they've given their fans, you'd hope again that if you had 50,000-plus, it would still be a brilliant spectacle. 'I think the Leinster final with 60,000 there showed that when you have a good contest and you have a crowd there, Croke Park fairly comes alive. Ultimately that's what players want, that's what you thrive on and that's what all the sacrifice is being done for. It's big days like that."
