Stock: Walgreen Co. (WAG)
52 Wks
Price Information: Hi Lo EPS DPS Price
Buy date: 1-18-06 49 41 1.57 .26 43.91
Sell date: 4-19-06 49 41 1.57 .26 44.12
Product Market Analysis
Walgreen Co. engages in the retail sale of prescription and nonprescription drugs, and general merchandise, through a drugstore chain in the United States. It is the nation’s largest drugstore chain by sales. General merchandise includes cosmetics, toiletries, household items, food, beverages, and photofinishing. It also provides services at the drugstore counter, as well as through the mail, by telephone, and on the Internet. As of October 31, 2005, the company operated 5,000 stores in 45 states and Puerto Rico. In addition, it operated 3 mail service facilities. Walgreen Co. was founded by Charles R. Walgreen, Sr. in 1901. The company is based in Deerfield, Illinois.
Walgreen’s had March sales of $4,086,720,000, an increase of 9.2 percent from $3,742,653,000 for the same month in 2005. Sales in comparable stores (those open at least a year) rose 4.3 percent. This year's March sales were affected by an unfavorable comparison of a March Easter season last year versu ...