Consumer >> Analyst Interviews >> May 12, 2003
Adrienne Tennant is Head of Consumer Research at FBR Capital Markets and covers
the specialty apparel sector. She brings to to the team more than 13 years of
experience in the financial services industry. She also has worked at Gap, Inc.,
in the Gap brand finance and strategic planning group, and at The Disney Stores.
Prior to joining FBR Capital Markets, She was a Senior Analyst in the consumer
group at Wedbush Morgan Securities, where she concentrated on the retail sector
with a focus on specialty apparel. She has also worked in investment banking for
Prudential Securities; Prudential Structured Finance Group, a private debt
investor in power and infrastructure projects; and PDI Strategies, a
quantitative asset allocation group. She was rated as one of the top three
specialty retail stock pickers in 2005 by Forbes.com/StarMine. In 2004, she was
named a "Home Run Hitter" by Institutional Investor for her AEOS stock pick. In
2008, Forbes named her one of the "Dazzling Dozen," ranking her number 11 out of
more than 2,700 stock analysts surveyed for stock performance over a three-year
period. For that same time period, she was ranked number one in non-food
retailing. She holds an MBA degree from The Anderson School at the University of
California, Los Angeles, and a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford
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Ms. Tennant: I have 16 names under coverage. They are Abercrombie
& Fitch (ANF), American Eagle (AEOS), AnnTaylor (ANN), bebe
(BEBE),
