Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST) Reports Solid Numbers - ARW, ROST, KSS, AMGN, COST

Lakeway, TX -- (SBWIRE) -- 02/07/2013 -- Bestdamnpennystocks, an investment community with a special focus on updating investors with recent news on the U.S. stock market, issues news alert on the following stocks:-

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (NYSE:ARW) decreased 1.96% to $39.50. The Company reported fourth quarter net income of $174.7 million or $1.62 per share compared to $174.1 million or $1.53 per share in the prior year period. The analysts expected the Company to report profit of $1.06 per share for the quarter. The sales declined 1% to $5.40 billion. Analysts expected revenue of $5.25 billion for the quarter. The Company expects first-quarter total sales will be between $4.6 billion and $5.0 billion and earnings per share to be in the range of $0.80 to $0.92 per share.

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Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST) went up 0.39% to $59.34. The Company reported sales for the five weeks ended February 2, 2013 of $672 million compared to $483 million of sales in the four weeks ended January 28, 2012. Same store sales for the four weeks ended January 26, 2013 increased 4% on top of a 5% gain for the four weeks ended January 28, 2012. The sales rose 15% to $2.761 billion for the 14 weeks ended February 2, 2013. Comparable store sales for the 13 weeks ended January 26, 2013 were up 5% over a 7% increase for the 13 weeks ended January 28, 2012.

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Kohl's Corporation (NYSE:KSS) decreased 1.32% to $45.64 on a traded volume of 161k shares. The Company posted comparable store sales for the four weeks ended January 26, 2013 increased 13.3%. Sales for the fifth week of fiscal January 2013 were $169 million. Comparable store sales increased 1.9% for the quarter and 0.3% for the year.

The Company will report its fourth quarter 2012 earnings on February 28, 2013.

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Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMGN) went up 0.37% to $86.91. The Company outlined the company's long-term strategy during a Business Review meeting with analysts and investors in New York City.

Currently, the Company expects adjusted 2013 earnings of $7.05 per share to $7.35 per share for 2013 and that it would record the credit in the first quarter.

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Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ:COST) was up 0.22% to $101.92. The Company reported net sales of $9.35 billion for the month of January 2013 compared to $8.74 billion during the similar period last year. The Company reported net sales of $43.77 billion for the first twenty-two weeks of its fiscal year ended February 3, 2013 compared to $40.18 billion during the similar period last year.

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