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  • The Lesser Known Restaurateurs

    By Matthew Luke - June 19, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BH, MCD, THI

    In the world of publicly-traded restaurant companies, a tiny few command most of the attention of the U.S. mainstream financial media. If your company is not a big name like Starbucks or Chipotle Mexican Grill, good luck getting even a brief mention on CNBC. Despite the lack of attention, there are other lesser known restaurant companies out there that are quietly improving sales, expanding their businesses and making their more »

  • Second Look at Arcos Dorados

    By Matthew Luke - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, CL, MCD, YUM

    On Tuesday, Latin American restaurant operator Arcos Dorados (NYSE: ARCO) reported its first quarter earnings results. Earnings per share came in at a 8-cent loss, below analysts’ estimates of 6-cent gain, with revenue of $976.9 million, beating consensus estimates of $960.4 million. This continues a challenging 12-plus months for the company, which has seen tough operating conditions across Latin America after what had initially been an impressive growth more »

  • Emerging Markets Food Plays

    By Federico Zaldua - April 12, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, YUM

    Emerging Markets (EM) are poised to continue growing not only through exports but, above all, through growing their internal consumer markets. Emerging economies with huge populations such as Brazil, India, China or Mexico are constantly adding new people to their growing middle classes. Understanding this is key when thinking of investing in the emerging world. I have chosen three companies that will hugely benefit from this trend. These three companies more »

  • McDonald's Latin American Opportunity

    By Matthew Luke - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, MCD, YUM

    It was almost exactly two years ago when shares of the world’s largest franchiser of McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD) restaurants debuted on the New York Stock Exchange. Since its initial public offering, shares of Arcos Dorados (NYSE: ARCO) have significantly underperformed the overall market (down 42%, while the S&P 500 has rallied 19%). Are the hopes for explosive emerging market growth dashed or are good times just around more »

  • Latin American McDonald's Appears Promising

    By Ryan Palmer - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, MCD, WEN

    In 2007 current CEO Woods Stanton and his company Arcos Dorados (NYSE: ARCO) paid McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) 700 million for 1,560 restaurants and rights to operate McDonald's in Latin America and the Carribean. Apparently it was a wise investment for Stanton, a $700 million investment six years ago is now a $2.8 billion company. So the CEO made his fortune from this company, but can it more »

  • Something Is Being Lost In Translation

    By Chad Henage - March 19, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, MCD, YUM

    Take a great brand name, combine it with growing economies, and get subpar results? This feels like the story of Archos Dorados (NYSE: ARCO). The company literally is the McDonalds (NYSE: MCD) of the Latin American marketplace. Archos Dorados has the rights to franchise McDonald's business to countries like Brazil, Mexico, Panama, Costa Rica, and more. On the surface it seems like this is a can't-lose proposition, but more »

  • Burger King’s Focus on Coffee Should Reward Shareholders

    By Chris Katje - March 2, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, TAST, MCD, SBUX, WEN

    Despite losing market share to Wendy’s and falling into the number three burger chain role for a brief moment, Burger King (NYSE: BKW) is not giving up. For the longest time, Burger King has played second fiddle to McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), but held onto the number two spot. In fact, the recently public restaurant chain made an announcement that should get shareholders and future investors excited.

    “Perk up more »

  • A Fast Growing McDonald's in Latin America

    By Anh HOANG - February 20, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, MCD

    The Motley Fool has released the top 7 stocks that were recommended by Fool’s analysts for 2013. Out of these 7 stocks, I have talked about two companies, including Tile Shop Holdings, the tile retailer, and Western Refining, an independent crude oil refiner.  In this article, I will cover one more mid-cap stock on that list. It is Arcos Dorados Holdings (NYSE: ARCO), the Argentina-based McDonald’s (NYSE: MCDmore »)

  • 3 Dominant International Opportunities

    By Josh Kohn-Lindquist - February 5, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, BIDU, GSH

    After buying in to many bad international investments on my CAPS account, and even a couple smaller plays in my own personal portfolio, I am extremely hesitant to jump into many foreign markets, particularly China.  Having lost money and many valuable CAPS points over the last 2 or 3 years due to scams, creative accounting, and "reverse mergers," I never thought I'd find myself interested in Chinese stocks or more »

  • Digging into YUM

    By Ryan Guenette - January 10, 2013 | Tickers: ARCO, DPZ, JACK, MCD, YUM

    A SWOT analysis is a look at a company’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, and is a great way to gain a detailed and thorough perspective on a company and its future. As the 2013 year rollercoaster journey begins, I would like to pinpoint on a trailblazer in the quick service restaurant industry, Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM).

    Strengths:

    • Dividend: At the moment, Yum Brands pays out quarterly dividends of more »

  • Why Calories Are Better Than BTU’s for Your Retirement Portfolio

    By Matthew DiLallo - December 29, 2012 | Tickers: ARCO, XOM, MCD, YUM

    Foolish blogger Robert Zimmerman and I have spent the past few months engaged in a bit of iron sharpening.  In an effort to become more well-rounded investors, we’ve taken the time to look at both sides of an investment thesis.  It’s a practice that’s helped us dig a little deeper and fully cover all our bases. 

    It’s also instilled a bit of friendly rivalry.  While be more »

  • THE RITE TIME

    By Will Strouse - December 28, 2012 | Tickers: ARCO, RAD

    Three weeks ago, Rite Aid (NYSE: RAD), was a financial pariah. 

    At some point, years prior, saddled with unmanageable debt from the acquisition of Brook and Eckards, they had crossed an event horizon and began drifting inevitably towards the black hole of bankruptcy. 

    The occasional chatter of a buy out from one of their preferred competitors (Walgreens, CVS) was just that, chatter; empty.

    But now, the third biggest drug store more »

  • SWOT: McDonald's

    By Callum Turcan - December 14, 2012 | Tickers: ARCO, MCD, YUM

    SWOT: McDonald’s

    Using a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis, we can break down a company and determine whether or not it is worth investing in. McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is down 11% YTD but is up 400% over the past ten years. Is McDonald's going to continue to trend downwards or is it going to return to its great performance over the years. Let's see.

    Strengths more »

  • Why I Allocated Big Money to These Five Cheap Stocks

    By Matthew DiLallo - October 16, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, ARCO, EXC, INTC, MPW

    I think that the Efficient Market Hypothesis was made up to keep the individual investor out of the market.   It says that the markets are informationally efficient to the degree that one cannot consistently earn market beating returns.  I, on the other hand, firmly believe that if you look deep enough there are always stocks that the market missed or underpriced.   To prove it I started a virtual portfolio I more »

  • 3 Reasons Why These Growth Stocks Will Soar

    By Matthew DiLallo - October 3, 2012 | Tickers: AMZN, ARCO, FB, MCD, WPRT

    Will Rogers was famous for saying, “only buy stocks that go up.  If they don’t go up, don’t buy them.”  That sounds good, but in practice it’s much harder to actually accomplish.  However, by answering these three simple questions you’ll be able to invest better and find growth stocks that truly soar.

    What’s Their Addressable Market?

    The technology might be breakthrough or the concept might more »

  • These Five Stocks Aren’t Messing Around

    By Matthew DiLallo - September 18, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, ARCO, BIP, F, MPW

    Have you noticed how sensitive stocks can be?  They can move up or down wildly based on the contents of a press release.  All too often what’s in that press release doesn’t contain enough information relating to the true value being created or destroyed by the company’s management. 

    What typically happens is that the information didn’t jive with the perceptions of market traders who reacted instead more »

  • Why These Dividends Matter

    By Matthew DiLallo - September 10, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, ARCO, F, LOW, MPW

    It’s now been three months since I launched a paper trading portfolio I dubbed the “No Drip, No Mess” portfolio.  It was built upon three pillars which I believe will lead to some serious outperformance over the long term.  These pillars were a core of high dividend paying stocks built around a theme of writing options on solid by fairly valued companies which also paid a decent dividend for more »

  • Investing Abroad: Argentinian Stocks

    By Matthew Luke - August 29, 2012 | Tickers: ARCO, EBAY, MCD, MELI, YUM

    Diversification is the best defense against global uncertainty. Living abroad, that is one truth that I have come to appreciate more and more. With so much uncertainty in Europe and the rest of the world, we sometimes forget that truth. In these times of uncertainty, many investors seek the safety of good US companies, avoiding the rest of the world completely. Diversification means more than just different sectors of the US economy. Diversification also means foreign companies that will protect your portfolio from domestic risk.

  • Is the Latin American McDonald’s Bueno o Malo?

    By Ryan Guenette - August 28, 2012 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, JACK, MCD, YUM

    Arcos Dorados Holdings Incorporated (NYSE: ARCO) is known as the “Latin American McDonald’s.” Arcos Dorados is the largest operator of McDonald’s restaurants in Latin America. As of December 31st 2010, the company operated or franchised 1,755 McDonald’s restaurants, which at the time represented 6.7% of McDonald’s total franchised restaurants. Arcos Dorados possesses restaurants in 19 countries, and is Argentinian based. On April 18 more »

  • McDonald's is on my Value Menu

    By Jon Quast - August 24, 2012 | Tickers: ARCO, BKW, EBAY, MCD, WEN

    I have been a McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) value menu kind of guy ever since...never mind, I've always been a dollar menu person.  In high school I worked a minimum wage job which barely paid my gas to work and school.  The dollar menu was all I could afford.  When I was newly married, things were tight.  There was no room for the Big Mac in my budget more »

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