A number of retail store and restaurant stocks report earnings this week, including Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc. (NYSE: WEN), Macy’s Inc. (NYSE: M), Nordstrom Inc. (NYSE: JWN), Jack in the Box Inc. (NASDAQ: JACK), Tim…
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) is holding up better than we might have expected following its secondary offering. The coffee conglomerate traded above $78.00 briefly this week after a huge jump in…
It was in early April that we called Domino’s Pizza, Inc. (NYSE: DPZ) a value stock as America’s pure-play pizza delivery giant. After all, it was trading at only about 12-times forward earnings expectations. The…
Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) had traded as though investors were expecting a breather going into earnings. Those earnings are out and it turns out that the company continues to amaze. Earnings came…
Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. (NASDAQ: GMCR) saw shares surge in the after-hours trading after beating earnings and raising guidance. It turns out that higher coffee prices are not yet hurting the company. A…
If the great magician Harry Houdini were alive today, the one thing he could never escape from would be inflation. It affects the rich and the poor — though of course to varying degrees.…
Sears Holdings (NASDAQ: SHLD) has disappointed its shareholders so many times since the company was formed in 2005 as a marriage of Sears and K-Mart, that the disappointments can hardly be counted. The retail…
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ) had already suffered one outage of its new heavily marketed 4G network. It appears that the data portion of that 4G network is suffering yet another outage today, although…
TeavanaIf you are one who likes to see new retail brands come public in initial public offerings, a new IPO filing will be one you want to watch. A company called Teavana Holdings, Inc.…
Restaurant giant Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) has made a preliminary offer to acquire China’s Little Sheep Group Ltd. and its 300 or so stores in China, the US, and Japan. Yum already owns…
Chef’s Warehouse Holdings, LLC will likely soon be public as The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. It has filed to come public via an Initial Public Offering and plans to list its common stock on The…
Walmart (NYSE: WMT) is known for “every day low prices.” It is probably the primary reason people shop there and it has made the company the world’s largest retailer. Wal-Mart, for some reason, thinks it…
Stocks which rose last week were paced by National Semiconductor (NYSE: NSM) which jumped 68% to $27 after it agreed to be purchased by Texas Instruments (NYSE: TXN). The fate of the transaction between two weak companies depends on…
Many of the largest mall operators in the US have gone into default. The Wall Street Journal recently said that the problem is caused by the effects of the economy on small business owners and…
RadioShack Corporation (NYSE: RSH) is seeing shares higher today on news that it will be selling the iPad2 from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) at about 500 stores throughout the country. The initial move has…