Designer Brands: No Turnaround In Sight (Rating Downgrade)

Designer Brands Inc. (NYSE: NYSE: DBI ) , the outfit behind DSW and a grab bag of owned and licensed shoe brands, has spent years trying to sell itself as a value player, a middleweight straddling national labels and in-house labelsI focus on producing objective, data-driven research, mostly about small- to mid-cap companies, as these tend to be overlooked by many investors. From time to time, though, I also look at large-cap names, just to give a fuller sense of the broader equity markets.Analyst’s Disclos ...