Many on Wall Street are scratching their heads over the latest move by activist investor Carl Icahn.
On Friday, after activist investor Carl Icahn revealed a 12.1% stake in Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE: PBY), the stock bounced big in after-hours trading, but cooler heads appear to...
The early wave of third quarter earnings stepped on a banana. Pepsi (PEP) numbers were awful and they cost a lot of people their jobs.Globally, approximately 3,300 positions will be eliminated in...
"Comfort food" is close to recession-proof, at least according to Pepsi (PEP). According to Reuters, Pepsi believes that "its business, based on "comfort foods", to be...
On Wednesday morning, we’ll get to see earnings out of Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE: KO). The estimates from First Call for the world’s leading beverage giant are $0.55 EPS on $7.01 Billion in...
Coca-Cola Co. (NYSE:KO) has reported $0.85 EPS vs. $0.82 estimate from First Call. The net EPS was $0.80 after a $0.05 in one-time charges.  Revenues were the real gainer with $7.73 billion,...
PepsiCo Inc. (NYSE: PEP) has not been living up to its defensive stock nature like rival Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO).  The beverage snack food giant reported earnings this morning that are heading...
On April 26th, Gores Group LLC asked Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack (NYSE: PBY) to delay a special shareholders meeting by 30 days in order to give the private equity firm time to figure out what has...
Tiger Woods has been the dominating news force over the last week.  It has been such a distraction that we have even worried that this would take everyone’s eyes and ears off of the key issues...
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) is trying to turn a wrong-way ship.  Whether this is the right path is going to be up for debate.  During a recovery, layoffs are not always viewed as well. The soft...
Reports that Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is set to invest up to $2 billion in India over the next five-year period brings up an interesting question regarding its arch-rival Pepsico Inc. (NYSE:...
Thursday morning we will get earnings from The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO), and this will likely be the big set-up play for Friday’s Pepsico, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) earnings.  We have prepared a...