Over the past few years, E.l.f. Beauty has built one of the fastest-growing portfolios in cosmetics, expanding beyond its namesake (Eyes, Lips, Face) value-focused makeup brand into skin care and prestige beauty. And its biggest
With aviation already an often prohibitively costly industry for individual players without major backing, several smaller and charter carriers did not survive the spike in jet fuel prices that came at the start of 2026
I have covered two bankruptcy stories before. Not from the usual angle of what happened and why; for each, I dug deeper into who could win from the wreckage. The Magellan Aerospace story led me
When we moved to our former house in the Tradition neighborhood of Port St. Lucie, Fla., we had two Starbucks, two Dunkin’s, and two local coffeehouses within a few miles of our house. A few
“You don’t win friends with salad.” That’s a classic Homer Simpson line referring to his plan to host a barbecue where he cooks an entire pig, which horrifies his vegetarian daughter Lisa. In reality, however,
Kohl’s is expanding a key partnership in its stores as its customers tighten their budgets and gravitate toward other retailers. In the second quarter of this year, the department store chain’s comparable sales dipped 0.9%
Financially strapped dining chains often turn to business lenders for loans to buy time to turn around their operations. Certain restaurant owners are able to cure their economic problems and continue operating, but others who
With more than 21,000 locations spread out across 48 states, Dollar General has the largest physical footprint of any retailer in the country. The discount retailer’s size is undoubtedly a strength — approximately 75% of
While the approximately 8,000 registered travel agencies operating in the U.S. in 2026 can seem like a big number, it is significantly lower than the peak 35,000 businesses that sold trips and tours during the
You can be right about the science and still lose every dollar you put in. That is the hardest lesson in small-cap investing, and it shows up in credit agreements and amendment schedules, not in
