Article: Wells Fargo Securities Initiating Coverage on Brown Shoe Company With Buy Rating.

John Shanley, athletic footwear analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, has initiated coverage on the shares of Brown Shoe Company with a Buy rating and price target of $33.00.

 
  Below are direct quotations from Mr. Shanley's research report: 
 
  * We are initiating research coverage on Brown Shoe Company, Inc. with a 
Buy rating and 12-month price target of $33.00, or 12x (a premium above 
the industry average P/E of 9.7x) our FY03 EPS estimate of $2.75. Our 
investment thesis is based on the significant gains that the company has 
recently achieved in both its top- and bottom-line results during FY02 
and the potential of continued strength that we ...

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