Frisco, TX -- (ReleaseWire) -- 02/29/2008 -- BeaconEquity.com announces the publication of ‘Paralysis of Analysis’

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Paralysis of Analysis

One of the greatest challenges that investors face is evaluating stocks and companies coming off a bad year or quarter.

J.C. Penney (NYSE: JCP) offered just such a dilemma earlier this year. After seeing its stock price (adjusted for dividends and splits) appreciate by 720 percent from the opening bell of 2001 to the closing bell of 2006, the company that James Cash Penney built lost nearly 50 percent of its equity value in ’07.

Experts pointed to waning sales growth and tighter margins as key reasons behind the decline, but J.C. Penney Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Myron E. “Mike” Ullman III had a different take.

“The combination of weak housing conditions, mortgage and credit market concerns and rising fuel prices has clearly led to a challenging macroeconomic environment for consumers,” he said while announcing the company’s disappointing third quarter results. “Along with unseasonable weather, this has created difficult conditions for most retailers, and our third quarter performance shows that J.C. Penney was not immune to those conditions.

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