10 Best Building Product Stocks To Invest In Right Now

10 Best Building Product Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Staples Inc.(SPLS)

Staples, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as an office products company. The company offers various office supplies and services, office machines and related products, computers and related products, and office furniture under Staples, Quill, and other proprietary brands. It also provides copy and print services to retail and delivery customers, as well as technology services through its EasyTech business. The company sells and delivers office products and services directly to businesses and consumers through Internet retail, including Staples.com and Quill.com, as well as through contract sales force, direct mail catalog business, and retail stores. As of January 28, 2012, it operated 2,295 retail stores in 48 states and the District of Columbia in the United States; and 10 provinces and 2 territories in Canada, as well as in Belgium, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, the United Kingdom, China, Argentina, and Australia. The company also operated 124 distribution and fulfillment centers in 29 states in the United States; 7 provinces in Canada; and in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, China, Argentina, Brazil, and Australia. Staples, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Jeremy Bowman]

  Finally, Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS  ) shares were off 1.6% today after its own earnings report failed to impress. The nation's leading office-supplies retailer warned of negative trends in demand for core office supplies, which shouldn't be surprising given the secular shift to digital communication. Management intends to focus on other categories, but that seems like a questionable strategy given its strength in office products. Earnings per share of $0.42 matched expectations, but revenue fell 3.! 8% to $6.11 billion, below the consensus at $6.18 billion. Given the fading relevance of office retail and the consistent emptiness of these stores, I'd avoid this sector.

• [By Douglas A. McIntyre]

  Oddly, Amazon may be the beneficiary of a crop of store closings by retailers as diverse as Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS) , Macy’s (NYSE: M) and Sears Holdings (NYSE: SHLD). If the problems this represents are primarily a drop in sales and managements’ forecasts, then it would be hard to argue that any company other than Amazon has taken and will take those sales.

• [By WALLSTCHEATSHEET]

  Staples had been a long-term winner, but it has underperformed the market during a massive bull run over the past several years. If a stock cant trade higher with the majority of the market in such an environment, then there is an underlying problem with the company or industry. In this case, its the industry. Staples currently has to deal with weak international operations, a weak consumer in the United States, and amazingly fierce competition. All that said, with effective cost-cutting measures in place and increased market share likely after the Office Depot/OfficeMax merger, there is short-term potential.

• [By Blake Bos]

  In the following video, Motley Fool industrials analyst Blake Bos looks at the most important news coming out of the 3-D printing world right now. He discusses 3D Systems' (NYSE: DDD  ) new partnership with Staples (NASDAQ: SPLS  ) and tells investors what to follow to see how well these printers contribute to the company's bottom line on the retail end. Blake also looks at General Electric (NYSE: GE  ) and discusses this massive company's plans to incorporate additive manufacturing into its production line.

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