![]() “Stock prices typically offer executives an opportunity to learn how capital markets are thinking about executives’ performance,” Schloetzer says. The meme stock period also squandered the opportunity to gauge company leadership. 17, the share price has fallen 94% to below $2, as investors continue to exit the stock en masse.” 17, many disregarded the fundamental business performance in favor of short-term excitement,” according to a weekly market update by Ironhold Capital Management released on Tuesday. “When the stock price rallied temporarily from $4 to $23 on Aug. But the company’s gains were only short term. Last year, during Bed Bath & Beyond’s time as a meme stock, (when online communities of retail investors coordinated buying and selling efforts to influence stock prices), a 20-year-old USC student actually netted $110m from stock dump at exactly the right time. “The playbook from Target did not transfer to Bed Bath & Beyond, and the customer walked in and felt they weren’t providing private label products that were distinctive and at a better price,” Stacey Widlitz, president of SW Retail Advisors, told Wahba. “His bold goal: having store brands generate 30% of sales, up from 10% at the time.” But some of Tritton’s new brands were of too low quality in relation to their price. “Tritton would apply his brand-building prowess-honed at Target, Nordstrom, and Nike before that-to launch 10 new brands,” Wahba writes. ![]() In a recent article on Bed Bath & Beyond’s strategic mistakes, my colleague Phil Wahba includes the replacement of name brands with private labels. Unfortunately, when you combine that with the competitive nature of the home products landscape, there is no quick win.” “When a company stops resonating with its customers, too many competitors can jump in to steal that business,” says Jason Schloetzer, an associate professor at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business, and a faculty affiliate at Georgetown McDonough’s Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy.
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