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Erin Lash
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Narrow-Moat Tapestry's First-Quarter Results on Track; Kate Spade Sustainability Is Still a Concern

Narrow-moat Tapestry’s first-quarter results showed continued progress on its Kate Spade integration. More specifically, sales grew 7% (outpacing our 2% full-year estimate) while gross margin expanded 170 basis points to 67.8% (in line with our 67.9% full-year forecast). This differential resulted entirely from the outperformance in Kate Spade (about 20% of sales) that grew 21% versus our assumption of flat. However, we posit most of these gains were a result of the firm’s efforts to consolidate...
Underlying
Tapestry Inc.

Tapestry is a lifestyle company. The company's primary product offerings, manufactured by third-party suppliers, include women's and men's bags, small leather goods, footwear, ready-to-wear including outerwear, watches, weekend and travel accessories, scarves, eyewear, fragrance, jewelry and other lifestyle products. The company has three reportable segments: Coach, which includes sales of Coach brand products to customers through Coach operated stores; Kate Spade, which includes sales primarily of Kate Spade New York brand products to customers through Kate Spade operated stores; and Stuart Weitzman, which includes sales of Stuart Weitzman brand products primarily through Stuart Weitzman operated stores.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Erin Lash

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