Financial Analysis of Aéropostale

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contents Company Overview 2 FINANCIAL Analysis 3 WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WACC) 5 Projection Analysis 6 VALUATION Analysis 8 Capital Structure 10 Conclusion 11 REFERENCE 12 Company Overview Aeropostale, Inc. (NYSE: ARO) is a primarily mall-based, specialty retailer of casual apparel and accessories, targeting 14 to 17 year-old young women and men through its Aéropostale stores and 7 to 12 year-old kids through its P.S. from Aéropostale stores. The Aéropostale brand was established by R.H. Macy and Company, Inc., as a department store private label initiative, in the early 1980’s. Macy’s subsequently opened the first mall-based Aéropostale specialty store in 1987. The company was formerly known as MSS-Delaware, Inc. and changed its name to Aeropostale, Inc. in February 2000, which is headquartered in New York. Over the next decade, Macy’s, and then Federated Department Stores, Inc. (now Macy’s Inc.), expanded Aéropostale to over 100 stores. The company maintains control over its proprietary brands by designing, sourcing, marketing and selling all of its own merchandise and its products can only be purchased in Aéropostale stores and online. As of June 14, 2012, the company operated 916 Aéropostale stores in 50 states and Puerto Rico, 70 Aéropostale stores in Canada, and 87 P.S. from Aéropostale stores in 21 states (Yahoo Finance, 2012, Business Summary). In addition, pursuant to a licensing agreement, one of the company's international licensees operated 10 Aéropostale stores in the United Arab Emirates. The company also recently announced a second licensing agreement, which allow the licensee to operated 25 stores in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia over the next five years. Financial Analysis According to the Aéropostale’s financial statement (U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 2012, Aeropostale Inc. Financial

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