Margaret Whitfield has over 20 years of experience covering consumer stocks. Most recently, she worked at Ryan Beck covering specialty retail and prior to that she was at Brean Murray and Tucker Anthony. Earlier she was a director of research at FBW Investment Management in and a portfolio manager at GEICO. Ms. Whitfield was named to the Wall Street Journal All American Teams in 2003 and 2005 in specialty retail. In both 1998 and 2000, she was named in the Wall Street Journal Team for Textile and Apparel. In addition, Ms. Whitfield was named top retail analyst in the StarMine (Forbes) poll in 2005.