5 Best Mid Cap Stocks To Own For 2015

5 Best Mid Cap Stocks To Own For 2015: Hanesbrands Inc. (HBI)

Hanesbrands Inc., a consumer goods company, engages in the design, manufacture, sourcing, and sale of apparel essentials in the United States and internationally. Its product portfolio includes T-shirts, bras, panties, men?s underwear, kids? underwear, casualwear, activewear, socks, and hosiery. The company offers its products under the brand names of Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, L?eggs, Just My Size, barely there, Wonderbra, Stedman, Outer Banks, Zorba, Rinbros, and Duofold. Hanesbrands also licenses its Champion name for collegiate apparel and footwear. The company sells its products through various distribution channels, which include mass merchants, national chains and department stores, direct to Consumer, and other retail channels, such as embellishers, specialty retailers, and sporting goods stores. As of January 2, 2010, it operated 228 outlet stores. The company is headquartered in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Hanesbrands Inc. operates independently of Sara L ee Corp. as of September 5, 2006.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By , Zacks Investment Research]

  Investors seeking exposure to the Apparel industry could look at HanesBrand (HBI), a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) stock.

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• [By Geoff Gannon] en are Wal-Mart, Target, the dollar stores, etc.

  And the end user (consumer) is really the female head of the household. This is complicated somewhat in almost all situations by the possibility as we have with Hanes where the user is not always the purchaser. Plenty of underwear purchases are not made by the person who will use the product. But they are obviously an influencer of the purchase decision.

  The strongest example of this is kids' toys. Kids do not buy toys. Parents buy toys But kids influence t! he parents.

  For many companies, sales are first made to distributors, then go from distributors to retailers, then from retailers to households. And even within the household the buyer may not be the user.

  It is helpful to make these distinctions. And not to be overly technical about the way accounting defines customers, etc.

  For example, a key group to consider with Western Union is agents. The way Western Union's statements are prep ared, however, treat agents simply as an expense line with their revenue belonging to Western Union. The reality is more complicated. Western Union's financial statements appear to have a ton of variable costs in them. But this is really all just agent expense. The business is in reality a very fixed-cost business. Once an agent is in place an additional customer of that agent adds to the bottom line of both the agent and Western Union to a very great extent relative to the fees that customer pays. In other words, marginal revenue turns into marginal profit very easily.

  When considering investing in a company like Western Union, you have to think about both agents and customers. It would be wrong to focus only on customers. The agents are a key part of the business. In many ways, they are the best chance of having a competitive advantage. So it is Western Union's job to attract both agents and customers.

  That is the kind of thing Warren Buffett would intuitively understand and focus

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