Blue Nile Inc.

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• Blue Nile: Diamonds Are Not Forever

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-02

  Zachary Scheidt submits: Bargain hunters may be tempted to take a look at Blue Nile, Inc. NILE which is down roughly 75% from last year's high. After all, the company has no debt and posted third quarter profits, as opposed to many retailers which showed losses. ...

  Tags: Retail, Zachary Scheidt, Blue Nile Inc.

• Five Main Points from Blue Nile's Q3

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-11

  Kevin Stecyk submits: Blue Nile, Inc. NILE held its third quarter 2008 conference call last week. I listened to the call and read the transcript at Seeking Alpha. We could dig into the facts and figures, but the reality is, I do not think the highly granular information...

  Tags: Seeking Alpha, Kevin Stecyk, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Blue Nile Inc., Retail

• Blue Nile, Inc. Q3 2008 (Qtr End 9/28/2008) Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-11-04

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Doug Anmuth – Barclays Capital. Doug Anmuth – Barclays Capital In terms of working capital, can you just give us a sense of whether suppliers are changing their terms at all in terms of needing their cash...

  Tags: Cash Flow, Working Capital, Call Transcript, Earnings, Term, Blue Nile Inc., Managerial Accounting, Sales Strategy, Channel Management, Operational Accounting, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Seeking Alpha

• Selling Blue Nile Ahead of Earnings

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-10-30

  eChristian Investing submits: Blue Nile NILE is scheduled to report third quarter 2008 results after the market closes on Tuesday, November 4. Based on our analysis, we at eChristianInvesting are expecting NILE to report better than expected results that beat Wall Street’s consensus expectations. Analyst Expectations We are...

  Tags: Revenue, Earnings, Seeking Alpha, eChristian Investing, Operational Accounting, Finance, Blue Nile Inc., Internet

• S&P 1500 Stocks With The Highest Short Interest

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-09-11

  Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Yesterday's release of the bi-monthly short interest figures showed that short sellers trimmed their bets for the third period in a row.  As of August 29th, the average short interest as a percentage of float for stocks in the S&P 1500 declined to...

  Tags: US Market, ArthroCare Corp., Corus Bankshares Inc., Firstfed Financial Corp., Greenhill & Co., Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc., MarineMax Inc., Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc., Life-Time Fitness Inc., Blue Nile Inc., NutriSystem Inc., Sears Holdings Corp., True Religion Apparel Inc., Under Armour Inc.

• Stocks with the Highest Short Interest

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-29

  Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Below we highlight stocks in the S&P 1500 with the highest short interest as a percentage of float.  Investors like to look at these names to 1) find companies that investors are extremely negative on, and 2) find companies that could see big...

  Tags: US Market, Aeropostale Inc., Big Lots Inc., Buffalo Wild Wings Inc., Corus Bankshares Inc., Forest Oil Corp., General Dynamics Corp., Goodrich Corp., MarineMax Inc., Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc., Kraft Foods Inc., L-3 Communications Holdings Inc., Lockheed Martin Corp., Life-Time Fitness Inc., Blue Nile Inc., NutriSystem Inc., Sears Holdings Corp., SanDisk Corp., Startek Inc., Synaptics Inc., True Religion Apparel Inc., Unum Group, Werner Enterprises Inc., Zale Corp.

• Top 12 Consumer Internet Stocks

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-27

  Sramana Mitra submits: My thesis on Web 3.0 is based on the verticalization of the web around specific Contexts. Here is a list of the top 12 Consumer Internet stocks, some of which, to varying degrees, understand how to create a business around a vertical context. 1. Google...

  Tags: Internet, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc., Expedia Inc., Google Inc., Move Inc., Blue Nile Inc., Orbitz, Priceline.com Inc., Shutterfly, WebMD, Yahoo! Inc., ZipRealty Inc.

• Looking For Action? S&P 1500 Most Volatile Stocks

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-20

  Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: For traders with a more short-term time horizon, we have compiled a list of the S&P 1500 stocks trading above $25 per share that have the largest intraday high-low ranges (based on the average percent spread between the intraday high and low over...

  Tags: US Market, Arch Coal Inc., AK Steel Holding Corp., Bank of America Corp., BB&T Corp., Cleveland-Cliffs Inc., Comerica Inc., Consol Energy Inc., Capital One Financial Corp., City National Corp., Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., Lawson Products Inc., Legg Mason Inc., M.D.C. Holdings Inc., Massey Energy Co., Blue Nile Inc., Piper Jaffray Cos., Prosperity Bancshares Inc., Raymond James Financial Inc., Signature Bank, SunTrust Banks Inc., Superior Well Services Inc., Terra Industries Inc., Under Armour Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., World Acceptance Corp., Olympic Steel Inc., Zions Bancorporation

• WebMD, Blue Nile: Two Consumer Internet Plays

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-20

  Sramana Mitra submits: Continuing my coverage of consumer internet companies and how they are adapting their business strategies to Web 3.0, here is an analysis of two very different players, WebMD WBMD and Blue Nile NILE, who recently announced their results. WebMD, the online medical services portal, has...

  Tags: WebMD, Internet, Blue Nile Inc.

• Blue Nile, Inc. Q2 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-08-18

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator instructions Our first question comes from the line of Lorraine Maikis from Merrill Lynch. Your line is open. Lorraine Maikis – Merrill Lynch Thank you. Good afternoon. I was just curious about the cost control strategy and if there is anything else you can...

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• Blue Nile Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-05-06

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions Our first question is from the line of Doug Anmuth with Lehman Brothers. Please go ahead. Doug Anmuth - Lehman Brothers Thank you for taking my question. First one, just looking at the revenue growth rate, particularly in the back half of the year,...

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• Market Review for Blue Nile, Inc.

  - 2008-03-11

  M2 PRESSWIRE-11 March 2008-Market Review: Market Review for Blue Nile, Inc.C1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11032008 Streetinvesting.com has now resumed our progressive review of Blue Nile, Inc. (Nasdaq: NILE) after it traded up less than 1% Tuesday, late in the...

  Tags: Blue Nile Inc., Company, FINANCE, jewelry, Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., SALES

• Blue Nile Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-02-12

  Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions We’ll pause for just a moment to compile the Q&A roster. Our first question is from the line of Jim Friedland of Cowen & Company. Please go ahead. James Friedland – Cowen & Company First is a question on...

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• Blue Nile Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2007-11-06

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Mark Mahaney - Citi Investment Research. Mark Mahaney - Citi Investment Research Thank you very much. Two questions, please. On the international expansion, are there any trends you're seeing in terms of the products that sell in the UK and Canada,...

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• Blue Nile Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2007-08-06

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Jack Murphy - William Blair. Jack Murphy - William Blair Mark, on the last conference call you said that when you looked at traffic versus conversion, I think you said that it was about 50-50 in terms of...

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• Blue Nile Q1 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2007-05-07

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Your first question comes from Scott Devitt - Stifel Nicolaus. Scott Devitt - Stifel Nicolaus Thank you. The outperformance that you attributed to the high dollar items in the quarter, it seems like there would have been other drivers as well....

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• Blue Nile Q4 2006 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2007-02-12

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Scott Devitt of Stifel Nicolaus. Scott Devitt - Stifel Nicolaus Thanks, and congratulations, Diane. I have just a few questions. First, the free cash flow generated for the full year, could you give us...

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• Blue Nile Q3 2006 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2006-10-30

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Scott Devitt with Stifel Nicolaus. Scott Devitt - Stifel Nicolaus Thank you. I just had one question, and it is more global in nature, I suppose, than specifically related to the quarter....

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• Blue Nile Q2 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (NILE)

  Seeking Alpha - 2006-08-01

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions. Our next question comes from Scott Devitt – Stifel Nicolaus. Scott Devitt - Stifel Nicolaus Thank you. First, I had a question about the average selling price in the quarter, which I think you said was up 14%. I'm wondering how...

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• Blue Nile Inc. Q1 2006 Earnings Conference Call Transcript (NILE)

  Seeking Alpha - 2006-05-02

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Our first question comes from Scott Devitt, Stifel Nicolaus. Scott Devitt - Stifel Nicolaus Two quick questions, Mark. I was wondering if you could maybe breakdown the gross profit margin impact year-over-year between the pricing change and commodity prices? Secondly, if you...

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• Incorporated: 1999
• CEO: Ms. Diane M. Irvine
• Employees: 191