Jos A. Bank (JOSB) reported decent numbers yesterday: sales grew 10%. It’s not a blow out number but a respectable number for this environment. Profit margins have expanded as corporate expenses are leveraged across a larger store base, driving earnings growth to 27%.

At some point its advertising expenses will start declining as percent of sales and margins should go up further. At today’s incredibly cheap valuation of 10x 2007 earnings, all the company had to do is be able to fog a mirror – they did a lot more than that. It seems that this performance has legs as same store sales in November came in at 15%.

I wrote several articles in the past, little have changed since. Well, except earnings are up in 30-40%, inventory is not a concern anymore and stock price is back to where it was then.