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  • These Stocks Belong in Your Shopping Cart

    By Robert Ciura - May 24, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, CAG, GIS

    One particularly wise piece of investing advice is to buy what you know. In other words, investors who don’t have either the time or the patience to devote hours and hours of their valuable time to portfolio management, can do themselves a huge favor by focusing on stocks they already know a lot about.

    To that end, it’s extremely likely that you’ve come across these companies and more »

  • Panning for Solid Gold Pantry Stocks

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, CALM, PF

    Using a stock screener is a lot like panning for gold. After screening over 4,000 food and beverage stocks on criteria of a minimum four star CAPS rating, yield over 2.5%, and Wall Street outperforms, three names come up shining: Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ: CALM), B&G Foods (NYSE: BGS) and Pinnacle Foods (NYSE: PF). I was fully expecting to see names like General Mills or McCormick.

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  • 3 Companies Yielding Dividends Greater Than 3 Percent

    By William Bias - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, KMB, CLX

    Right now the stock market is hitting new highs just about every day. The Dow just surpassed 15,000 for the first time, and the S&P 500 is also shattering records. All of this makes it difficult to find companies with dividend yields greater than 3%. Never invest in a company based on yield alone--always invest with the viewpoint of someone wanting to take ownership in a business, which more »

  • Building a Watch List From Your Kitchen

    By William Bias - May 3, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, KO, CAG, SJM

    Whether you’re just getting started in stock market investing or you’ve been doing it for 20 years you may be at a loss for ideas. Building a watch list represents a good way to compile investment ideas and test them to see whether those companies will perform up to your expectations before investing. The Motley Fool Watch List helps you do just that. In addition, you can see more »

  • A Small Food Company With a Big Dividend

    By Timothy Green - April 29, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, KRFT, PF

    B&G Foods (NYSE: BGS) is a small packaged food company with a market capitalization of just $1.6 billion. B&G sells a variety of small niche brands such as Baker's Joy, Grandma's Molasses, Mrs. Dash, and Cream of Wheat, along with many others. The company's business model revolves around acquisitions of small, established brands, too small for the larger food companies to be interested in more »

  • The Fairy Godmothers of Food Companies

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - April 7, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, HAIN, PF

    Who doesn't love a good Cinderella story?  Corporate makeovers are generally the province of hedge funds and activist investors, but three companies specialize in taking Cinderella food companies and readying them for prime time.

    BGS Foods (NYSE: BGS), Pinnacle Foods (NYSE: PF) and Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN) buy dowdy companies at low prices, dress them up with new labels or packaging and get a ride to the shelf space more »

  • The Fairy Godmothers of Food Companies

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, HAIN, PF

    Who doesn't love a good Cinderella story?  Corporate makeovers are generally the province of hedge funds and activist investors but three companies specialize in taking Cinderella food companies and readying them for prime time.

    BGS Foods (NYSE: BGS), Pinnacle Foods (NYSE: PF) and Hain Celestial (NASDAQ: HAIN) buy dowdy companies at low prices, dress them up with new labels or packaging and get a ride to the shelf space more »

  • What To Expect From Pinnacle Foods After the IPO

    By Adam Levy - April 1, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, GIS, PF

    Initial public offerings are notoriously volatile. Small, relatively nascent companies can be a boom or a bust for those banks that choose to underwrite them and investors that get in early. Even a more mature company can see a big jump between its offering price and what the market ultimately decides its worth. That’s why investing early in public offerings can be a risky game. One newly public company more »

  • Two of America's Best Small Food Processing Companies

    By Anh HOANG - March 28, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, CVGW, SJM

    Forbes recently released a list of 100 America’s Best Small Companies. It would be quite interesting for us to scan through the list to find several attractive investment opportunities. The list ranks 100 companies in terms of sales, sales growth, EPS growth and return on equity. In this article, I will take a closer look at two food-processing companies in the list.

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  • 3 Dividend Stocks That Are Reasonably Valued

    By Casey Hoerth - March 1, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, COP, O

    This week the S&P 500 index ended lower than it started, at one point dipping down to 1497 before closing at 1515. There's no doubt that valuations are higher than they were three months ago. Many seem to be waiting for a dip, and if this week's one was it, it indeed was a shallow one.

    For those who are feeling nervous that the ship has already more »

  • It's a Spammy, Spammy World

    By Leo Sun - February 25, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, CAG, HRL, MDLZ, TSN

    Hormel (NYSE: HRL), the maker of iconic canned meat Spam, has surprisingly been one of the most impressive growth stocks of the decade. The stock has risen 240% over the past ten years and nearly 80% over the past five - leaving the S&P 500 in the dust. It has also outperformed major competitors such as ConAgra (NYSE: CAG) and Tyson (NYSE: TSN). What factors propelled this seemingly ordinary stock more »

  • Winding Down Fourth-Quarter Earnings

    By Damon Churchwell - February 7, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, BIG, LO, POOL

    We are awaiting results from numerous companies, including many in positively-trending industries. The residential construction market is showing signs of a further recovery, a factor that could spark a broader economic upturn. Meanwhile, retail and consumer spending is treading water but is climbing in certain sectors. Finding the right areas to invest in for the near and long term has become important. A suggestion is to keep track of earnings more »

  • A Fine Buffet Designed for Profit: 3 Food Company Stocks

    By Michael Ugulini - January 22, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, CAG, SJM

    At one of my favorite all-you-can eat restaurants I recently indulged in an array of foods that comprised all I enjoy in dining out. The experience was replete with flavorful, innovative foods from all of the major food categories. What came to mind was how the investing experience can be the same way; how precise research can lead you to choose a buffet of quality food stocks designed for profit more »

  • Are You Ashamed To Buy Into This Trend?

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - December 31, 2012 | Tickers: BGS, CAG, RAH, THS

    I don't know why one would be ashamed of it since 99% of Americans do it now. One per cent of us are too old fashioned to do it.

    That's right, 99% of us buy private label merchandise, whether it's food, over-the-counter medicine, or pet food. The recession catalyzed 47% more Americans to start buying private label. Retailers, especially grocers and drugstores, sat up and took notice more »

  • 3 Companies Soaring with Efficiency

    By Michael Carter - December 6, 2012 | Tickers: BGS, SAM, SWI

    Net Income per Employee or NIPE (sometimes called revenue per employee) is a company’s net income divided by the number of employees.  I like to compare it to the efficiency of the workforce in generating real monetary results.  It is not as mainstream a metric as other popular indicators like market cap, P/E ratios, or EPS, and is often not mentioned at all unless you do the calculation more »

  • The Aisle of Misfit Brands

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - November 20, 2012 | Tickers: BGS, GIS, SJM, PEP, PG

    B&G Foods (NYSE: BGS) is one of those stocks that won't capture anyone's attention at a holiday party, though likely some of their products were used to make the feast. But let it drop that BGS has had a double since you bought it and now your yield is at 10% (assuming you bought in 2010) and their necks will whip around. "Is it a biotech? Is more »

  • Make Your Portfolio Shine With This Stock

    By Himanshu Poddar - November 14, 2012 | Tickers: BGS, FLO, GIS

    Economic slowdown and weak demand has been a concern for food companies. Also, increasing commodity costs have been cruel to the food industry players, making their battle even worse. However, amidst all the problems there is one shining star that has been an incredible performer. Flower Foods (NYSE: FLO), which provides bakery products in the United States, has been a great company and is making the right moves to outperform more »

  • Three Small Dividend Payers with Unique Business Models

    By Reuben Brewer - November 12, 2012 | Tickers: BGS, KIM, KRFT, PEP, WRE, WSR

    Small cap dividend payers B&G Foods, Whitestone REIT, and Washington REIT compete in industries with giant participants like Kraft and KIMCO Realty. They use their small size to their advantage and that could benefit your portfolio.

  • The Best of the High Yield Food Stocks

    By Lee Samaha - September 21, 2012 | Tickers: BGS, CPB, CAG, GIS, K

    I must confess that while listening to ConAgra (NYSE: CAG) on its conference call I got an eerie sense of deja vu. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but then it hit me. It's management had mentioned the ability to hike the dividend thanks to its high cash flow generation and I knew that I had heard this argument somewhere before.  Frankly I think chasing high more »

  • A Picture Perfect Portfolio

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - September 18, 2012 | Tickers: AAPL, BGS, CAB, GE, LXU, VVUS

    When creating a sculpture or a painting an artist usually first sketches out the objective. Similarly when crafting a portfolio you have to sketch out your objective. Is this a retirement portfolio, an income portfolio a growth or value portfolio?

    Let’s say you want some growth, value and income, an all around portfolio. You might trade in and out a little but generally you’re trying for something that more »

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