The S&P 500 is a benchmark commonly used to measure a fund manager’s success or failure. And despite the fact that the S&P 500 has seen a 0.1% decline so far in 2015, some stocks, such as the ones on our list, have lagged even that lowly performance.
Keurig Green Mountain Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) – $50.40
Food Processing
Keurig Green Mountain, Inc. is a specialty coffee and coffeemaker businesses in the United States and Canada. The Company sells Keurig Single Cup Brewers and Arabica bean coffees, including Fair Trade Certified, certified organic, flavored, limited edition and blends offered in K-Cup and Vue packs (single serve packs) for use with its Keurig Single Cup Brewers. In addition, Keurig produces and sells other specialty beverages in portion packs, including hot apple cider, hot and iced teas, iced coffees, iced fruit brews, hot cocoa and other dairy-based beverages.
- Market Cap: $7,619,716,643
- YTD Price Change: -62.6%
- Revenues (LTM): $4,678,634,000
- Free Cash Flow (2014): $381,573,000
SanDisk Corp. (NASDAQ: SNDK) – $50.13
Computer Hardware
SanDisk Corporation provides flash storage solutions. The Company designs, develops and manufactures data storage solutions in a variety of form factors using flash memory, controller, firmware and software technologies. SanDisk’s solutions include a range of solid state drives (SSD), embedded products, removable cards, universal serial bus (USB), drives, wireless media drives, digital media players, and wafers and components. The SSD products are used in enterprise data centers and client computing platforms. Its embedded flash products are used in mobile phones, tablets, computing platforms, imaging devices and automobiles.
- Market Cap: $11,000,860,330
- YTD Price Change: -45.1%
- Revenues (LTM): $6,051,182,000
- Free Cash Flow (2014): $1,465,662,000
Ralph Lauren Corp. (NYSE: RL) – $112.90
Apparel & Accessories
Ralph Lauren Corporation is engaged in the design, marketing and distribution of products, including men’s, women’s and children’s apparel, accessories (including footwear), fragrances and home furnishings. The Company operates in three segments: Wholesale, Retail and Licensing. Its Wholesale business, representing approximately 47% of the Company’s fiscal 2014 net revenues, consists of sales made principally to major department stores and specialty stores across the world. The Company’s Retail business, representing approximately 51% of the Company’s fiscal 2014 net revenues, consists of sales made directly to consumers through its retail stores across the world; through concession-based shop-within-shops located primarily in Asia, Australia and Europe; and through the Company’s retail e-commerce channel in North America, Europe and Asia.
- Market Cap: $9,911,171,054
- YTD Price Change: -37.5%
- Revenues (LTM): $7,530,000,000
- Free Cash Flow (2014): $503,000,000
Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ) – $27.35
Computer Hardware
Hewlett-Packard Company is a global provider of products, technologies, software, solutions and services to individual consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and large enterprises, including customers in the government, health and education sectors. The Company offers the IT industry’s broadest portfolios of products and services that bring infrastructure, software, and services through innovation to enable its customers to create value and solve business problems. Hewlett-Packard’s operations are organized into seven business segments: Personal Systems; Printing; the Enterprise Group; Enterprise Services; Software; HP Financial Services, and Corporate Investments.
- Market Cap: $50,109,952,821
- YTD Price Change: -30.9%
- Revenues (LTM): $108,283,000,000
- Free Cash Flow (2014): $8,480,000,000
