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Iconix Brand Groups (ICON) is a brand management company focused on owning, licensing, selling, marketing, and extending clothing stores and brands in the women’s, teen girl, sports, and entertainment segments.
Below is a list of the brands it owns and / or manages.
All these brands focus on the medium to lower end of the clothing brand and cost spectrum, and I know this arena well from my experience running an eBay store focused on selling these things.
But we’ll get back to evaluating this when we dig into the financials in the next part of this case study.
For now let’s get to the preliminary analysis of the company.
The following analysis is the preliminary analysis I do on all companies.
Below is a video highlighting everything I found important while doing my preliminary analysis.
If you want further explanation on anything in this video, please go to the following pages. Aramanino Foods (AMNF) Case Study Part 1 – Preliminary Analysis, Why the P/E Ratio Is Useless and How to Calculate EV and Earnings Yield Explanation video.
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