第8名：辦公用品及服務供應商Office Depot

????交易代碼: ODP

????年初至今股票表現: -56%

????市值: 6.70億美元

????財富500強排名: 211

????鑒于股市震蕩和美國二次經濟衰退的擔憂揮之不去，辦公用品零售商今年的日子不好過也屬情理之中。Office Depot第三季度營收同比下降2%至28億美元，主因是電腦銷售疲弱。這只股票的表現好于競爭對手OfficeMax，但不如史泰博（Staples）。

????2011年Office Depot官司纏身。6月份，這家零售商了結了科羅拉多州指控其多收費的官司，在其他幾個州它也面臨類似的調查。4月份傳出兩個壞消息：一是一些投資者在佛羅里達提起集體訴訟，指控其違法聯邦證券法，二是公司關閉了加拿大境內的最后一家實體店。

????Office Depot的市場競爭環境日益激烈，前景不明。德意志銀行（Deutsche Bank）4月份向投資者指出，潛藏的“觸底反彈”可能意味著未來會好轉，但見底的時間還沒有到老?；ㄆ旒瘓F（Citigroup）的凱特?麥克肖恩7月份在一份報告中指出，她認為“未來12個月中沒有太多刺激因素能推高該股”。

Office Depot

????Ticker: ODP

????YTD stock performance: -56%

????Market cap: $670 million

????Fortune 500 rank: 211

????Given the volatility of the stock market and fears of a double-dip recession, it's not surprising that office supply retailers didn't have a great year. Third-quarter revenue at Office Depot dropped 2% year over year to $2.8 billion, largely due to weakness of computer sales. The company's stock fared better than that of OfficeMax, but it trailed Staples.

????It was a year of legal tussles for Office Depot. The retailer settled with the state of Colorado in June on charges that it overbilled, and it has faced similar investigations in other states. April delivered a double blow: Investors filed a class-action lawsuit alleging violation of federal securities laws in Florida, while the company closed its last brick-and-mortar store in Canada.

????Office Depot faces an increasingly competitive environment with an uncertain future. Deutsche Bank noted to investors in April that a looming "bottoming out" might mean better times ahead, but the bottom might not be here yet. Citigroup's Kate McShane told investors in a July note that she did "not see a lot of catalysts to move this stock up over the next 12 months."