Back in February we noted that there wasn’t exactly a whole lot of value to Applebee’s (NASDAQ:APPB) at the $27.25 level when it decided to explore strategic alternatives. Someone did find value, but at…
Triplecrown Acquisition Corp. has filed to come public as a ‘blank check’ or SPAC (special purpose acquisition company). Triplecrown is a newly organized blank check company formed for the purpose of acquiring one or…
We have covered Mackey’s gaff a couple times already, but this situation is going to go far beyond mackey himself. After Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI) CEO John Mackey was busted for using the Yahoo! Message…
We wanted to look farther into what John Mackey of Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI) really said on his Yahoo! message boards. The truth is that when you look through the links here under the full…
Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI) is seeing shares indicated down about 1.5% after an interesting development where its CEO John Mackey used an online handle of "rahodeb" to attack rival Wild Oats (NASDAQ:OATS) from 1999 to…
How fast the world can change in retail, particularly when you are a troubled technology retailer. Circuit City (NYSE:CC) is hitting yet another 52-week low this morning. The company stock is down with the…
This morning Starbucks shares are traded higher, thanks to it being upgraded at Thomas Weisel Partners to Overweight from Market-Weight with a $34.00 target. The note points to the recent stock price and management…
Cheesecake Factory (CAKE-NASDAQ) is trading down more than 7% to $24.80 on almost triple its normal volume after multiple analyst downgrades based upon comments from a growth conference. Yesterday, at a William Blair Growth…
Best Buy’s (BBY-NYSE) Q1 2008 was a bit of a disappointment, although that is somewhat par for the course as the mood was fairly sour going into the report. The company posted $0.39 EPS…
Stock Tickers: WEN, THI, YUM, BKC, MCD When companies announce they will finally start accepting offers to be acquired, it usually creates at least some interest in the stock. When Wall Street has been…
It is always a bit puzzling when you see a $600 million company make an acquisition of a company for $1.5 Billion. This morning, Finish Line (FINL-NASDAQ) has announced that it will acquire Genesco…
It is always interesting seeing option and share sale activity of company executives and insiders, particularly ahead of a stock split and particularly if your employee shares and options are in a shoe maker…
Hansen Natural Corp. (HANS-NASDAQ) was added to the Americas Buy List at Goldman Sachs with a potential 30% return expected based on a $52.00 price target because of new discounted cash flow and revised…
This morning Goldman Sachs has made several changes to its Americas Conviction Buy List, but the most interesting change was the dropping of Starbucks (SBUX). Goldman Sachs said it was adding McDonald’s (MCD) as…
McDonald’s (MCD) credited much of its same store improvement to it co-promotion with animated hit movie "Shrek III". The fast food chain said global sales at stores open over a year were up 8.7%.…