Brian Sozzi is Chief Equities Analyst for NBG Productions. In this capacity, he is responsible for developing independent financial content and actionable stock recommendations (including ratings and price targets) for an institutional and retail investor base. In addition, Sozzi is the Editor in Chief of the "Decoding Wall St." investor education online platform.Expand

Sozzi was previously a senior equity research analyst specializing in the apparel and hard goods sectors of the retail industry for Wall Street Strategies Inc., where he managed a client book that included leading financial institutions. He also contributed to his firm's twice-daily stock market commentary and trading services, and monthly newsletter.

Sozzi became recognized by StarMine as a top-ranked equity research analyst for stocks under coverage in such categories as "EPS Estimate Accuracy" and "Industry Excess Return." Sozzi was then awarded the 2011 FT | StarMine Analyst Award for "No. 3 Earnings Estimator in the Textiles Apparel & Luxury Goods Industry."

Routinely sought after as a trusted point of reference for opinions and insight on the global economy and stock evaluation, Sozzi was a frequent on-air guest on CNBC, and more recently has appeared on Bloomberg, the Fox Business Network and PBS.  He is cited regularly by online/print publications that include CNBC.com, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Reuters, The Associated Press, Barron's, Financial Times and Kiplinger's.  He graduated summa cum laude from Dowling College.Collapse

Its European sales and same-store comps tell us that this stock deserves to be down.
| May 16, 2012
| 12:16 PM EDT
Adding it to my watch list yesterday, was feeling the action compared to the down market. Getting some big follow through today. Looking...
If we look beyond the eurozone, we see all positive attributes to global data are getting pushed aside.
| May 16, 2012
| 8:04 AM EDT
I was not a fan of the stock pre-earnings, and am still not a fan having sliced and diced the numbers pre-earnings call. We have a...
| May 16, 2012
| 6:33 AM EDT
It seems as if only a couple of days ago we were toying with 1340 on the S&P 500.=A0 Now, the S&P 500 has closed below prior 1340 support,...
When it verbalizes its poor results on the call, these points will likely remain unspoken.
Management will likely provide a strategy to break through the company's peak operating margin.
| May 15, 2012
| 9:04 AM EDT
The European division for TJ Maxx (TJX) led the company in terms of same-store sales at 13% growth. Easy year earlier comparison or not...
Don’t kid yourself -- no matter what you may hear, this is worrying stuff.
| May 15, 2012
| 7:47 AM EDT
Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS) is a best of best in breed stock to be put (or traced over) on a list of names to return to once the market...

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| May 16, 2012
| 4:04 PM EDT
U.S. stocks again gave up early gains and finished Wednesday lower....
| May 16, 2012
| 2:58 PM EDT
Stocks are hovering around flat, but the credit market is trading very poorly. Bid-wanteds in cash are rolling in, especially in the go-go financial names....

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