Benefit from TJX’s bargain hunting

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THE TJX COMPANIES. $54.54 is a buy. The company (New York symbol TJX; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average) (www.tjx.com; Shares o/s: 1.2 billion; Market cap: $66.5 billion; No divds.) is a leading off-price retailer of clothing, accessories and home fashions. Off-price retailers buy merchandise at below wholesale prices and sell for under-retail prices. The company has now reopened about 1,600, or 36% of 4,500 stores worldwide in the wake of COVID-19. It expects to open almost all of the the rest by the end of June 2020. The closures have hurt TJX’s results in the near term. But longer term, its position as the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions in the U.S. and worldwide will pay off for investors. And what’s more, right now, the company is seeing lots of opportunities to buy off-price merchandise from distressed or bankrupt retailers. This should give it lots of product to attract shoppers back as more of its stores reopen. reopen…