L Brands Inc LB 0.81% shares are tumbling 8.3 percent on Tuesday following negative commentary from management and a 2016 full-year guidance cut. Following Tuesday’s drop, shares of the battered retailer are now down 31.1 percent in 2016.
PreMarket Prep hosts Joel Elconin and Dennis Dick discussed the implications of L Brands’ guidance cut for the rest of the retail sector on Tuesday morning’s show. With the holiday season fast approaching, Dick said he is becoming increasingly concerned that the market may be in for “retail hell” in Q4.
Shareholders of stocks such as Nordstrom, Inc. JWN 0.44%, Kohl’s Corporation KSS 0.3%, Gap Inc GPS 1.82% and other retailers could be set up for a big pullback, especially considering how the stocks have outperformedlately.
“We haven’t had retail hell here for a little while, and there have been some pretty good runs in some of these retail stocks,” Dick concluded.
“You’ve got Cyber Monday and the day after Thanksgiving, so you’ve got a lot of events that may determine what kind of holiday season we’re going to have, and it’s not too early to start talking about it,” Elconin added. “Watch…
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