The rise of Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN 0.74% has changed the face of brick-and-mortar retail forever. Amazon may have single-handedly driven traditional mall retailers such as Aeropostale, Pacific Sunwear, American Apparel and Wet Seal into bankruptcy. Other companies, such as Sears Holdings Corp SHLD 25.63%, seem to simply be delaying the inevitable.
However, just because some of the worst-performing mall retailers are going under and others are closing down thousands of stores doesn’t mean that betting against all retailers across the board is a good idea.
Some mall retailers are doing just fine in the Amazon era.
TJX Companies Inc TJX 1.24%, Nordstrom, Inc JWN 1.21% and Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. NASDAQBBBY have grown their revenues by 37.4, 31.1 and 27.3 percent in the past five years.
Other companies have been gaining market share and/or increasing efficiency from all the store closings. Falling share prices have created appealing valuations in the space as well. J C Penney Company Inc JCP 0.99%, Macy’s Inc M 1.17% and Kohl’s Corporation KSS 0.14% all currently trade at forward PE ratios of under 12.
Mall REITs are doing just fine as well. Shares of Simon Property Group Inc NYSESPG, General Growth Properties Inc GGP 0.39% and Macerich Co MAC 0.07% are all up between 24 and 53 percent in the past five years.
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