Hansen Natural Corp. (NASDAQ:HANS) was downgraded by Goldman Sachs this morning basedupon recent gains in the stock reflecting valuations. Goldman Sachs believes this reflects the potential that it sees for new product growth and…
NutriSystem, Inc. (NASDAQ:NTRI) has lowered expectations for its preliminary financial results for its third quarter. The company simultaneously announced that it authorized a $100 million increase to its existing stock repurchase program and it…
Crain’s Chicago Business has gotten its hands on the game plan for McDonald’s (MCD) to conquer the premium coffee world. As the business magazine put it: "In one of its biggest strategic moves ever,…
Online retailer Amazon (AMZN) hit a 52-week high last week. So did Priceline (PCLN), Expedia (EXPE), and eBay (EBAY). Even Overstock (OSTK) made the list. On the 52-week low side of the ledger, Wall…
Coca-Cola (KO) and Pepsi (PEP) keep making new highs. Yesterday, Coke hit $57.33, a few pennies from its 52-week peak. At $72.62, the same is true of Pepsi (PEP). So far this year, both…
Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) is doing a large management suffle. Normally management shuffles spook investors and normally we don’t like to see them in good companies. But if this was being evaluated in school or…
We’ve started seeing some of the recent emptier pockets of Joe Q. Consumer, and after a warning yesterday out of McCormick & Schmicks’s we wanted to see how some of the NASDAQ growth restaurant…
Sears Holdings (SHLD) was supposed to be the next Berkshire Hathaway. It does not seem to be working out that way. After a poor earnings performance and rough same-store sales, SHLD hit a new…
Lowe’s (LOW) management must not have wanted the Target (TGT) people to feel all alone when they cut their same-store sales forecasts. Lowe’s chopped its earnings estimate after the market closed. The AP writes…
Target’s (TGT) forecasts for September were off, way off. Instead of a 4% to 6% increase in same store sales, the big retailer is giving out a number of 1.5% to 2.0%. According to…
It is not a good sign. Starbucks (SBUX) will give away 50 million downloads as part of its new service with Apple (AAPL). The venture allows iTunes customers to go online for free at…
Howard Schultz, the founder of Starbucks (SBUX) defended his company’s growth plans in an interview with The New York Times. His two points for investors in the company are that Starbucks has less than…
Cramer on CNBC’s Mad Money also came out in favor of YUM! Brands (NYSE:YUM) tonight. He said it is one you buy every time it pulls back. The growth from China is huge, and…
After the huge toy recalls by Mattel (MAT), it appears that Congress has begun to uncover several other companies that believe they have dangerous products that they will have to be withdrawn from the…
The world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart (WMT), will begin to offer a broader, and more expensive, set of health benefits packages to its US employees. The new programs give WMT workers the option of paying…