Starting out as "Men's Wearhouse," this rapidly expanding holding company learned early how to acquire and manage debt. It used acquisitions to keep earnings increasing until one day back in about 2015 it got "greedy" and in the opinion of class action lawsuit attorneys, took on too much debt load. It had a staggering loss in that year, but the company has since enjoyed a sort of turnaround, while still laboring over one very large acquisition.

Our recent article on Tailored Brands, Inc. (TLRD) is in the Archives Section Below.

Formerly on this site we were using a program that presented latest news on each of the 39 or so stocks we follow alongside a chart so that unusual movements could be correlated with news explanations. When Google decided to modify its site, which was for us a primary news source, so that it no longer worked with individual stocks on its RSS feed, that program became more or less worthless, leaving us with only one other primary news source, Yahoo. So we decided to abandon it.

Perhaps a more effective presentation could measure the movement of each stock in the preceding 20 days and relate the latest closing price to the amount of movement away from the center of the 20-day trading range in order to spot buying or selling opportunities. We quickly developed a simple program to do this which is presented in the link "Stock News Updates" at the bottom of this page. Currently, it shows only a table, but our near future intent will be to try to include a few news items underneath on the most volatile stocks to try to explain their movement.

Our commodities site successfully did something a little similar, measuring and comparing recent activity among various issues to help point the way to where the most effective trades might be located. This more or less follows the same technique except for stocks.

Note: Zenith tries to pick only stocks which are shortable, but sometimes stocks appear afterward on the SEC Regulation SHO list of stocks which are not shortable, which is beyond our control. On some stocks, Zenith may hold more than the number of shares it trades in its inventory. Thus the "short" sale of such a security would technically not be a "short" sale for us and not subject to SEC rules regarding selling securities which are not deliverable. Also, stocks pop on and off the list available for shorting on successive days, so the presence of a stock on the current SHO list doesn't mean it was there at the time it was shorted.

Stocks recently restricted by the SEC as not shortable unless they are owned by us which are on our Active List include: HDSN (1/31).