Wikimedia Commons, Public DomainPepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Wednesday morning. For the quarter, the food and beverage company posted adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $1.24 on…
courtesy of The Coca-Cola CompanyThe Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO) reported third-quarter 2013 results before markets opened Tuesday morning. For the quarter, the soft-drink maker posted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.54 on revenues…
ThinkstockPhilip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) has experienced more than impressive growth in both its share price and its profits in the past four years. Lately its gains have petered out. The problem is…
ThinkstockConstellation Brands Inc. (NYSE: STZ) reported second-quarter fiscal 2014 adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.96 on revenue of $1.46 billion. In the same period a year ago, the premium wine and beverage company…
courtesy of Google Inc.Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released its list of “The Most Innovative Companies of 2013.” As is the case with most of these types of lists, the conclusions are based on a…
ThinkstockConAgra Foods Inc. (NYSE: CAG) reported first-quarter fiscal 2014 results before markets opened this morning. The food processor and packager posted quarterly adjusted diluted earnings per share (EPS) of $0.37 on revenues of $4.2 billion.…
ThinkstockThe most fun thing about the business of beer, wine and spirits may simply be drinking it. But someone (or some company) makes the stuff, and you know they are not doing it on…
courtesy of Apple Inc.Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) well outpaced every major personal computer (PC) maker in the new, annual ratings from widely regarded research firm ACSI. Whatever the problems Apple has with its iPhone and…
Courtesy SanofiThe U.S. division of Paris-based Sanofi (NYSE: SNY) announced on Monday that an iconic U.S. consumer product not named Twinkies is on its way back to store shelves. Over-the-counter antacid Rolaids is once…
ThinkstockShares of Internet radio company Pandora Media Inc. (NYSE: P) are up sharply in premarket trading Thursday morning following last night’s introduction of Brian McAndrews as the company’s new CEO. Wall Street certainly is…
Eastman Kodak Co. (EKDKQ) is just about to be a new company, with a new direction under the same CEO, and without the burdens of its financial disaster of a past. This story has…
ThinkstockIt is not that frequent that an analyst downgrade sparks a 7% drop in a stock. That is why we are focusing on this big analyst downgrade in Tyson Foods Inc. (NYSE: TSN). BofA/Merrill…
JackDaniels.comIf you are ever playing the word association game and bourbon comes up, chances are high that the first or second brand you would associate it with is Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey. Brown-Forman Corp.…
ThinkstockWhile most people think private enterprise is responsible for innovation, a great deal of the technology Americans rely on comes from another well-known source: the U.S. military. Over the years, the military, and the…
ThinkstockIn a bit of news Anheuser-Busch InBev S.A./N.V. (NYSE: BUD) is bound to find unsettling, new research shows that people who visit emergency rooms with injuries prefer Budweiser products over other brands. The news gives…