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  • Don't Be Stingy With These Sin Stocks

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - June 17, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-A, DEO

    Garbo's first movie quote is one liquor companies would love to hear more often, "Pour me a whiskey and don't be stingy, baby."  However it's more likely to be a request for flavored vodka these days. To attract more women drinkers alcoholic beverage companies have been floating flavored vodkas and low calorie cocktail mixes as well as saucy YouTube videos.

    Hellooo, ladies

    Wooing women as a way more »

  • How Does Diageo Innovate?

    By Timothy Noffsinger - June 6, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, DEO

    On May 9, Diageo’s (NYSE: DEO) Global Director of Brand Innovation Group, Syl Saller, hosted a webcast (found here) to explain the company’s innovation strategy. After bragging that 50% of Diageo’s growth has come from innovation over the last five years, she went on to summarize Diageo’s approach to innovation: maximizing global and local benefits, breadth in the portfolio and distribution, great design, skilled liquid crafts more »

  • Billionaire Ackman Is Still Fighting the Good Fight

    By Marshall Hargrave - June 4, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, CP, PG

    Billionaire Bill Ackman and Pershing Square Capital's latest filing with the SEC shows that he has kept his top five steady and is continuing his major activist campaigns. This is no surprise, as Ackman is a long-term value investor, particularly successful at special situations. Outlined below are Ackman's top five, so let's check them out (check out Pershing's latest picks).
     
    Pershing's top stock remains Canadian more »

  • Is Manufacturing Really Making a Comeback in the US?

    By Colin Tweel - June 3, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, GM, PRLS

    By now you may have seen it in the headlines that manufacturing jobs are leaving China and coming back to the United States. The primary reasons for this manufacturing renaissance are rising Chinese wages, low quality, and increased shipping costs. The argument goes that if it hasn't already happened it will soon cost as much or more to manufacture and ship products made in China to the United States more »

  • Growth With A Catalyst For Foodies

    By Reuben Brewer - May 30, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, GIS, PEP

    Gabelli Asset Fund looks for companies trading at good prices that have a catalyst to drive future performance. Three recent fund highlights in the food and beverage area are Beam (NYSE: BEAM), General Mills (NYSE: GIS), and PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP).

    A Good Start

    The management team at the fund highlighted the strong start to the year in their first quarter commentary. However, it still believes that “attractively priced equities, especially more »

  • Don’t Make Investing Too Complicated

    By Matthew Luke - May 10, 2013 | Tickers: ABT, ABBV, BEAM, CHD, MCD

    If I could send a message back in time to my younger self, I would only need to use four words, “Keep it simple, Stupid!” This is great advice for life in general, but especially good advice when investing one’s own money. How much better would my stock portfolio would look today if I had realized this when I first began investing!

    Sometimes we as investors can fall into more »

  • Concerned About a Market Pullback? Just Add Booze

    By Justin Carley - May 8, 2013 | Tickers: BUD, BEAM, BF-B, DEO, PDRDY.PK

    Alcohol stocks have historically been popular choices thanks to consistent earnings growth. The stocks continue to enjoy a favorable story as pricing remains robust and emerging market consumption gains traction. But investors are well aware that it takes more than a good story to make a stock a good buy. A great story without reasonable valuation is often a disaster waiting to happen. So where do alcohol stocks sit today more »

  • Constellation Brands – Corona Causing Commotion

    By Karl Ege - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, STZ, VCO

    For more than one decade from 1992 to 2005, Constellation’s stock performance proved truly impressive and a boon to shareholders. From 2005 until May 2012, however, its performance turned negative producing a 34% slide ending the preceding shining glory. Following the announcement of a potential deal with Anheuser Busch that would give control of the production of Corona (and other Modelo beers sold in the US) to Constellation, the more »

  • A Brewer With Solid Growth Prospects

    By Piyush Arora - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, DEO

    There’s a saying that goes:  "When the economic conditions are bad, people drink to forget their miseries. And when the economic conditions are good, they drink to celebrate their joy!" With this thesis, brewers are often mistaken for defensive plays that deliver steady returns over time.

    Shares of Diageo (ADR) (NYSE: DEO) have risen 26% over the last year, and have not only outperformed the defensive space but also more »

  • Drink Up: Investing in Wine and Spirits

    By Marie Flanigan - April 24, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, STZ

    My last blog post about beer, available here, got me thinking about other options for investing in companies that manufacture and/or distribute beer, wine, and liquor. Not surprisingly, most vineyards, breweries, and distilleries are privately owned. However, there are some options for investors to consider.

    As with beer, wine and spirits are good for all occasions whether sad or joyous, so these companies can be good, solid, long-term investments more »

  • Keeping It Nice and Simple with Jim Beam

    By Matthew Luke - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, DEO, PDRDY.PK

    Do not make investing your own money a complicated endeavor. Sometimes we can fall into the investing trap that a complicated, difficult to understand investment is somehow the equivalent of a good investment. And sometimes it can be a good investment, but often it isn’t. Often it is the simplest things in life that make for the best long-term investments.

    Try this one: No matter where we live in more »

  • If You Want to Make the Most Money, Buy the Best Liquor

    By Ken McGaha - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, DEO

    After a difficult day or to celebrate success, when you’re a little bit down or even feeling your best, when the economy’s booming or bad times are looming, there’s one kind of product we’re sure to be consuming: alcohol! Can anyone think of any other substance consumed on such a widespread basis for such a wide variety of situations as alcohol? Can anyone think of a more »

  • Drink Up: Investing in Wine and Spirits

    By Marie Flanigan - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, STZ

    My last blog post about beer, available here, got me thinking about other options for investing in companies that manufacture and/or distribute beer, wine and liquor. Not surprisingly, most vineyards, breweries and distilleries are privately owned, however there are some options for investors to consider. Like beer, wine and spirits are good for all occasions whether sad or joyous, so these companies can be good, solid, long-term investments. 

    Brown-Forman more »

  • Boring Liquor's Exciting Opportunities

    By Matthew Luke - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, BF-B, DEO, HNZ, PDRDY.PK

    Boring companies can be some of the most exciting investment opportunities. When I say “boring" companies, I mean the types of companies that sell the types of products that have existed mostly unchanged for decades, if not longer. When looking for these types of boring investments, it does not get much more boring than the alcoholic beverage industry. Despite being boring, this industry is not entirely without a little excitement more »

  • Time To Get Drunk On Dividends?

    By Marshall Hargrave - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: BUD, BEAM, BF-B, DEO, TAP

    With the Fed planning to keep rates at historical lows through 2015 and Treasuries barely covering inflation, I'm led to search for yield in unique places. This includes turning to beer and liquor to solve my problems. There is no denying that alcoholic beverages are a favorite in tough economic times, helping us drown our sorrows, but they are also popular in a booming economy, being a fundamental part more »

  • How Were Pershing Square and Bill Ackman Preparing for 2013?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, CP, GGP, JCP, PG

    At Insider Monkey, we track 450 of the world’s most elite hedge fund managers and our research has shown that over time, their best picks routinely outperform.  For more than a decade in our back tests, our strategy beat the market by 18 percentage points a year, and since we've started sharing these picks with the public, it has outpaced the S&P 500 by more than 20 more »

  • Boring Liquor's Exciting Opportunity

    By Matthew Luke - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, DGE, DEO, PDRDF.PK, PDRDY.PK | Editor's Choice

    Boring companies can be some of the most exciting investment opportunities. When I say “boring," I mean the types of companies that sell the types of products that have existed mostly unchanged for decades, if not longer. When looking for these types of boring investments, it does not get much more boring than the alcoholic beverage industry. And Pernod Ricard (NASDAQOTH: PDRDY), the 216-year old French wine and spirits maker, is a particularly boring company.

  • Improving Economy Could Bolster Beer Companies

    By Gerelyn Terzo - March 12, 2013 | Tickers: BUD, BEAM, SAM

    The beer and wine market has been losing market share to the distilled spirits industry, according to a recent report issued by the Distilled Spirits Council of the U.S. The report suggest that distilled spirits segment increased its market share to 34.3% in 2012 at the expense of beer and wine. The market share compares with a 34.1% stake in 2011 so beer and wine makers might more »

  • Four Stocks to Beat the Sell-Off

    By Declan Fallon - February 27, 2013 | Tickers: AZO, BEAM, CVS, LLY, ORLY

    The rally from November lows has pushed many stocks toward rich P/E valuations, although the current spate of selling is doing its bit to bring these down.  However, opportunities remain in stocks well positioned to drive to new highs, even as stocks sell off around them. 

    Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY)

    Eli Lilly took off in 2012 but holds a reasonable P/E ratio; its 14.8 compares favorably to more »

  • Beam Me Up

    By Diane Alter - February 8, 2013 | Tickers: BEAM, FBHS

    Beam (NYSE: BEAM), the maker of the Jim Beam bourbon whiskey, one of the best-selling brands of whiskey in the world, just reported toast worthy fiscal year results for 2012. Sales were up 7% year-over-year and profits rose 9%.

    Propelling sales was better than expected results from Beam’s Power Brands: Jim Beam up 10%; Maker’s Mark up 15%; and Pinnacle Vodka up 19%. The group’s “Rising Star more »

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