Consumer >> Sector Roundtables >> August 5, 2002
WILLIAM ARMSTRONG joined C.L. King in March of 2001 as a Senior Analyst
covering the specialty retailing industry. Mr. Armstrong has 18 years
experience as an equity analyst and has spent the past seven years
covering the retail industry, exclusively. Prior to joining C.L. King,
Mr. Armstrong covered specialty retailers with PMG Capital and
Fahnestock & Company. He covered broadlines retailers as an analyst for
Salomon Brothers, Inc., and organized and developed the equity research
department at Rochdale Investment Management, Inc. While at Standard
Research Consultants in New York as an equity analyst, Mr. Armstrong
provided closely held security valuations and rendered fairness and
solvency opinions in connection with corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Armstrong earned a BS in Marketing and Management from Montclair
State University and holds a MBA in Finance from New York University's
Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial
Analyst. Profile
DAVID MAGEE, Managing Director, joined SunTrust Robinson Humphrey
Capital Markets in 1984, and was named a Financial Analyst in 1990. He
is a 1984 graduate of Wake Forest University and a 1991 MBA graduate of
Georgia State. Mr. Magee's coverage of specialty retail includes firms
in the drug, home furnishings, book, and sports sectors. He has been
named a Wall Street Journal All-Star three times. Profile
TWST: Bill, would you begin by telling us how you define your coverageuniverse at C.L. King?
Mr. Armstrong: It's pretty broad. It's specialty retail. We're more of
an idea shop. We tend