Hot Consumer Companies To Watch For 2015

Hot Consumer Companies To Watch For 2015: JAKKS Pacific Inc.(JAKK)

JAKKS Pacific, Inc. designs, produces, markets, and distributes toys and consumer products worldwide. The company offers traditional toys and electronics, such as action figures and accessories, including licensed characters under Pokemon name; toy vehicles and accessories under Road Champs, Fly Wheels, and MXS names; electronics products under EyeClops Bionic Eye, Laser Challenge, and Plug It In & Play TV Games names; dolls and accessories, including small and large dolls, fashion dolls, and baby dolls under Disney Princess, Disney Fairies, Cabbage Patch Kids, Taylor Swift, Fancy Nancy, Hello Kitty, Graco, and Fisher Price names; private label products; pet products, including toys, consumables, and accessories under American Kennel Club and The Cat Fanciers? Association; and vehicles, play sets, plush products, construction toys, and infant and pre-school toys. It also offers role play, novelty, and seasonal toys, including food play and activity kits under Girl Gourmet, Creepy Crawlers, and BloPens names; role-play, dress-up, pretend play, and novelty products for boys and girls under Black & Decker, McDonald?s, Dirt Devil, Disney Princess, Disney Fairies, Barbie, and Dora the Explorer names; indoor and outdoor kids? furniture, activity trays, tables and room d Advisors' Opinion:

• [By John Udovich]

  With Christmas almost here, it's a good time to take a closer look as toy stocks like mid caps Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ: HAS) and Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ: MAT) plus small cap JAKKS Pacific, Inc (NASDAQ: JAKK)to see whether their performance may warrant any of them as investor stocking stuffers. After all and if you have small children, you probably own some of the toys produced by these toy stocks. However, these same stocks are also facing headwinds or their share of troubles as children increasingly opt to play with vid! eo and computer games rather than the more traditional games and brands these toy stocks have focused on. Then again and near the end of November, Piper Jaffray analyst Stephanie Wissink was quoted as saying:

• [By Bryan Murphy]

  Congratulations to JAKKS Pacific, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAKK) for doing better than expected last quarter. Unfortunately, given the behavior of JAKK shares since this morning's announcement, it may not have mattered how well the organization performed in the third quarter of this year - the bears look like they were planning to ambush JAKKS Pacific no matter what the company reported today. And, that's a major clue nobody can afford to ignore.

• [By Peter Graham]

  The Q3 2014 earnings report for small cap toy stock JAKKS Pacific, Inc (NASDAQ: JAKK), a peer of toy stocks like Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ: HAS) and Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ: MAT), is scheduled for before the market opens on Thursday (October 21st). Aside from the JAKKS Pacific earnings report, it should be said that Hasbro, Inc reported Q3 2014 earnings yesterday (profit jumped 43% on higher international sales and strong demand for boys' toys such as Transformers and Marvel products) while Mattel, Inc reported Q3 2014 earnings on October 16th (Barbie sales sank 21%, dragging sales down 8% and profit down 22%). Given those earnings reports along with the fact that JAKKS Pacific is the fourth most shorted stock on the NASDAQ with short interest of 52.31% (according to HighShortInterest.com), investors and the shorts alike will be paying close attention to what is reported.

• [By Peter Graham]

  The Q3 2014 earnings report for large cap toy stock Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ: MAT), a potential peer of mid cap Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ: HAS) and small cap JAKKS Pacific, Inc (NASDAQ: JAKK), is scheduled for before the market opens on Thursday (October 16th). Aside from the Mattel, Inc earnings report, it should be said that Hasbro, Inc will report Q3 2014 earnings on October 20th (Next! Monday)�! �before the market opens while JAKKS Pacific, Inc will report Q3 2014 earnings before the market opens on October 23rd (Thursday). Mattel, Inc, like other toy stocks, has struggled to remain relevant in an age when many kids prefer to play video, mobile and computer games rather than with physical toys.

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