What a difference a year (or two) makes! Last Thursday, J.C. Penney reported better-than-expected first-quarter results including a second straight quarter of comparable-store sales growth. As a ...

Wall Street didn't like J.C. Penney's third-quarter surprise. The unexpected revenue shortfall seemed to catch analysts unawares despite the retailer's previous warnings that sales were slowing.

J.C. Penney reported some good news from its third quarter -- a 1.7 percent increase in same-store sales and a smaller loss than expected. And after closing 138 stores, total sales fell 1.8 percent to ...

Ordinarily, you’d expect a legal victory to give a company’s stock at least a short-term boost. But for J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), all news lately has seemed to be bad news, and the stock ...