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Canaccord Genuity Maintains a 'Buy' on Big Lots (BIG); Significant Upside Potential

April 18, 2012 10:05 AM EDT
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Price: $4.34 +5.34%

Rating Summary:
    9 Buy, 14 Hold, 7 Sell

Rating Trend: Up Up

Today's Overall Ratings:
    Up: 13 | Down: 10 | New: 11
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Canaccord Genuity maintains a 'Buy' on Big Lots (NYSE: BIG) price target of $58.00.

Analyst, Laura Champine, said, "We believe BIG’s improving product assortment will drive traffic and support the company’s SSS momentum. The company should benefit from efforts to shift sales mix to higher-demand categories, broadening its selection of consumables and underpenetrated discretionary segments. At 13x our FY12 EPS estimate and 6x FY12E EV/EBITDA, we don’t believe shares fully reflect the SSS growth we are projecting in FY12 and beyond."

"We estimate BIG will generate FY12 SSS growth of 2.9% on top of +0.1%, which would be the company’s highest full-year increase since FY06...We forecast double-digit bottom-line growth in FY12 and expect EPS to increase at a five-year CAGR of 12%."

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Shares of Big Lots closed at $45.32 yesterday.


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