Topic: Growth Stocks

The Stock Pickers Digest Hotline – Friday, June 19, 2009

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AEROPOSTALE INC., $35.02, symbol ARO on New York, opened the first of its new kids’ stores, “P.S. from Aeropostale,” on Thursday. The store is in the Palisades Mall in West Nyack, New York, just north of New York City. Aeropostale plans to open about nine more stores, mostly in the New York metropolitan area, this year. It also will launch an e-commerce site, www.ps4u.com. P.S. from Aeropostale is aimed at seven-to-12-year-old elementary-school students. The company’s more than 900 Aeropostale stores mainly target 14- to 17-year-old women and men. Both chains offer active-oriented clothing that has a reputation for high quality and low prices. The company will price comparable items at P.S. from Aeropostale about 10% to 15% below those at its main Aeropostale stores. Aeropostale is still a buy. 20-20 TECHNOLOGIES, $2.32, symbol TWT on Toronto, reported that its earnings rose sharply in the three months ended April 30, 2009, to $621,000, or $0.03 a share, from $37,000, or nil per share, a year…