9:41am ET
Investing
Time For Starbucks To Raise Its Dividend
Of course, Starbucks (SBUX) does not have a dividend. But, they might want to revisit that. Starbucks’s is no longer a growth stock, at least not in the classic sense. Its shares…
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5:08am ET
Retail
The Death Of Starbucks Growth
According to Bloomberg rising sales of McDonald’s (MCD) coffee prompted Marc Greenberg, a Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. analyst in New York, in June to reduce his Starbucks stock-target price by 14 percent…
3:19am ET
Media
Media Digest 9/12/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, Sony (SNE) will begin to launch new versions of it Blu-ray recorders in it battle against the HD DVD format. Reuters writes that Yahoo! (YHOO) has won exclusive rights…
7:07am ET
Retail
McDonald’s Kicks A– Again
Every man, woman, and child in most developed countries must be eating at McDonald’s (MCD). August same-store sales rose 8.1% in August. The company showed impressive strength in the US, Asia/Pacific, the…
5:28pm ET
Investing
Cramer’s Recession Draft Picks (PEP, MHS, MO, NOC, MCD, PG)
On tonight’s MAD MONEY, Jim Cramer said he was equating a stock picking portfolio like a fantasy football draft. He has been discussing rising unemployment, houses being lost, and a recession coming…
4:54pm ET
Retail
Starbucks: Is The World Running Out Of Coffee?
The chairman of Starbucks (SBUX) says that there will be a shortage of the beans for very high end coffee. Fear not. SBUX has already locked up supply due to it huge…
3:32pm ET
Investing
Defensive Stock Picks Better Than The Market (September 7, 2007)
We are frequently asked about how certain basket picks perform compared to the overall market. It has been years since anyone has claimed their stocks should gain regardless of the market because…
9:46am ET
Investing
“Time To Go Defensive, Again?” (PEP, KO, BUD, TAP, KFT, CAG, CPB, HRL, MCD, MO, VGR, RAI, PG, CL, MRK, JNJ, NVO)
If you ever heard the old saying "Be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" it sure seems like we are there. It also makes you wonder if it is…
8:56am ET
Investing
Krispy Kreme Sinks To The Bottom
In 2003, you could pick up shares of Krispy Kreme (KKD) for $49. This morning, the are down 19% to $5.10 on bad earnings. Revenues for the second quarter of fiscal 2008…
7:19pm ET
Retail
A Shotgun Wedding For Starbucks
Starbucks (SBUX) is not doing very well selling convincing investors that coffee sales in its stores are rising at an acceptable rate. The company’s stock is down 22% this year. So, the…
12:34pm ET
Investing
GM (GM) Gets Killed, Disney (DIS) Is Fine: The Beer And Hamburger Economy
With the market down 300 point in a day and off more than 10% from its recent highs, Wall St. is looking at some of the most active stocks and scratching its…
7:15am ET
Investing
Do Fat Children Prefer McDonald’s (MCD)?
A little study done by some doctors and scientists and published in Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows that most children prefer food wrapped in paper with the McDonald’s (MCD) logo.…
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Investing
Starbucks (SBUX) Fires Back At Dunkin’ Donuts
Earlier in the week, Dunkin’ Donuts made a big deal about its new plan to team up with Procter & Gamble (PG) to sell its coffee at retail outlets like Wal-Mart (WMT)…
3:10am ET
Investing
Media Digest 8/14/2007 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Barron’s
According to Reuters, profits at UBS rose to $4.7 billion in Q2, but the bank said the difficult markets could hurt second half results. Reuters writes that Wal-Mart’s (WMT) Japanese unit, Seiyu…
4:39pm ET
Investing
How Are Defensive Stocks Doing? (KO, MRK, PG, CAG, BUD, HRL, MO, CG MCD, KFT, GM)
Last Friday, we wrote about defensive stock havens for a crummy stock market. We also warned that in true market selling extremes there is no such thing as a true haven, and…