Finding Sporting Goods Sales When Customers Throw In The Towel

(Photo by Tim Boyle/Newsmakers) Getty Images In 2021, nearly 60% of consumers bought new sports shoes. Are all of those pandemic joggers now running for the exits? Sales in the sporting goods market i...

Barron’s Trader Stock Picks Had a Better Year Than the Market. What Worked—and What Didn’t.

It was a good year for the Trader column—and we’re not going to let a little thing like a small decline get in the way of our saying it. In any other year, we might have called our picks lackluster or...

What Happened To Peloton’s CMO Dara Treseder And The Wellness Industry At Large?

Getty Images Key takeaways Peloton CMO Dara Treseder is leaving the company for Autodesk just weeks after a broader executive shakeup Meanwhile, both Peloton and Planet Fitness stock are on the downtr...

Shoppers Are Getting Cheap. Here Are Stocks to Buy in a Trade-Down Economy

I regret buying a twin pack of 40-ounce ranch dressing jugs this past week. It’s not that I over-ranched—the warehouse club industry was built around rewarding extreme condiment commitments with low u...

With Elon Musk Buy More Likely, Twitter Stock Can Go to $50

Text size These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the vi...

At Big Ass Fans, Cooling Cows Led To Keeping People Comfy

The biggest moneymaker for Big Ass Fans: cooling for industrial spaces. Image courtesy Big Ass Fans Where it started: cooling big spaces in tough environments Big Ass Fans has a name that’s rather sel...