We also exited our positions in Coach (NYSE:COH) as we have seen the Company’s international unit, particularly in China, dramatically slow (on a constant currency basis). Relatively speaking, their results in China are still exceptional. Coach competes well below the price points of higher-end luxury players, and therefore has avoided the negative side effects of the Chinese Government’s corruption crackdown that has curtailed a wide swath of demand for higher-end luxury goods. However, on an absolute basis, we find it marginally more difficult to make the case for Coach’s long-term, double-digit earnings per share growth rate.
From Wedgewood Partners' fourth quarter 2015 client letter.
