When it comes to consumer spending, the back-to-school season is the second-largest shopping period of the year, behind only the all-important holiday shopping season that kicks off each year around Thanksgiving. This creates an annual opportunity for investors to own stocks that will hit it big with back-to-school shoppers.
However, not all cyclical retail stocks are created equal. To help you sort out the winners from the losers, we've put together a presentation of the top four stocks that we expect to dominate the back-to-school scene this year. In it, we explain why Amazon (AMZN +0.49%), Target (TGT +0.01%), Wal-Mart (WMT +0.42%), and Office Depot (ODP +0.00%) are making all the right moves today.
