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Article: Wal-Mart leads market cap despite loss.(Departments)
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- Home Textiles Today
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- June 13, 2005
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High Point -- In April's edition of the scorecard, Kids Today looked at market capitalization of the publicly held vendors in the juvenile home furnishings industry. In this edition, Kids Today reviews the publicly traded retailers in the industry.
Not surprisingly, retailer market capitalization makes vendor market cap pale in comparison. From 2000 to 2004, vendor market cap gained nearly $3.7 billion, compared with $28.9 billion for the retailers. Just one company, retailer behemoth Wal-Mart, had a decline. Its market cap dropped nearly $15 billion. More than offsetting Wal-Mart's market cap decline were Target Corp., which added $17.5 billion in market cap; ...