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  • Can This Packaged Foods Giant Keep Growing?

    By Leo Sun - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, MDLZ

    Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) recently reported its third quarter earnings, which came in above analyst estimates on both the top and bottom lines. The stock, which is often considered to be a slow-growth name in the packaged foods industry, has made a surprising comeback over the past year, rallying 37% over the past twelve months to hit all-time highs. What prompted this sudden interest in Campbell Soup, and should investors more »

  • Campbell Soup Stock is M'm M'm Good

    By Erin McBride - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, K

    Campbell Soup Co. (NYSE: CPB) reported an improvement in sales and soundly outperformed its competitors in comparable categories.

    The company's core U.S. soup business rose 14% in the fiscal third quarter, the largest quarterly gain in nearly five years. The company attributes the positive growth to improved taste in existing products, adding new products to their offerings, and cutting back on advertising.

    For the fiscal third quarter, Campbell more »

  • 3 Great Consumer Staples Stocks Flying Under The Radar

    By Robert Ciura - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, CHD, HRL

    Most income investors are well-aware of the benefits of dividend investing. Those quarterly checks provide stability and guaranteed returns in an era of high-frequency trading, geopolitical unrest, and volatile markets.

    The consumer staples sector in particular is a haven for those who enjoy receiving solid dividend yields. However, while most investors are fully aware of the market’s biggest consumer staples giants, there are a few stocks with much smaller more »

  • An Insider Just Bought This Hedge Fund Darling

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - May 6, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, SJM, K, MJN

    According to a filing with the SEC, an LLC connected to Mead Johnson Nutrition (NYSE: MJN) board member Howard Bernick purchased a little over 3,500 shares of the company’s stock on April 30 at an average price of $82.38 per share. Insiders should be reluctant to buy shares of their company, instead preferring to diversify - unless they are more confident in the stock’s prospects than the more »

  • The Mild Depression: Downwardly Mobile Profits

    By John Moore - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: AMZN, CPB, DG, NFLX

    The Elephant in the room is real — and won't go away. In the western world, the economy has been down since 2007, and, presently, the economic world is in depression. There, I said it. No one wants to use the "D" word, but I must because it's true. The truth is, the world is in a mild economic depression. The BRIC countries have been the exception, but even more »

  • 5 Food Companies To Feed Your Watchlist

    By Cory Renauer - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, HRL, SJM, MKC

    The packaged food companies below all market branded items that supermarkets and mini-marts absolutely must carry, or they risk losing business to stores that do. Just think about what people would say about a supermarket that refused to stock Cheerios in the cereal aisle. Also, because of their brand recognition, these companies don’t need to enter pricing wars with competitors. They can continue to charge higher prices for a more »

  • Is This Food Company a Good Buy?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, K, MDLZ

    General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is often offered as a classic consumer staples stock, and in fact, the stock price bears essentially no relationship with the broader market in statistical terms going by the beta of 0.03. Normally, General Mills would be expected to have underperformed the market in the last year -- a time over which the S&P 500 has risen 16%. However, the stock currently stands 27% higher more »

  • Is General Mills a Good Stock to Buy?

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, SJM, K, MDLZ

    General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is often offered as a classic consumer staples stock, and in fact the stock price bears essentially no relationship with the broader market in statistical terms going by the beta of 0.03. Normally, then, General Mills would be expected to have underperformed the market in the last year- a time when the S&P 500 has risen 16%. However, the stock currently stands 27% higher more »

  • Can These 3 Stocks Improve Your Portfolio's Health?

    By Madhu Dube - April 5, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, CAG, KRFT

    Consumer Analysts Group of New York (CAGNY) is a good platform for companies to meet analysts and convey their performance every year. For 42 years, this group has brought companies closer to their investors. In February, CAGNY organized this year’s annual gathering where many FMCG giants ran their presentations.

    Taking into consideration the disclosures made during this meet, I decided to analyze three stocks from this industry -- ConAgra Foods more »

  • What This Food Company's Results Say About the Industry

    By Lee Samaha - April 5, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, MKC, MCD, YUM

    If you share my opinion that the market is getting a little too much in love with food stocks right now, then the recent results from McCormick (NYSE: MKC) will have done little to allay any concerns. While they were perfectly okay, they didn’t offer much upside potential to a stock already trading at a lofty evaluation. On a more positive note, I think there are one or two more »

  • Juicing for Growth

    By Michael Ugulini - April 4, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, KO, PEP, SBUX

    Today, while looking at a few cold hard numbers, I'm also taking a more contemplative look at what some major companies are doing to drive growth. More specifically, I'm looking at how Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX), PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP), The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO), and even the Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) are juicing for growth.

    Starbucks Corporation acquired the Evolution Fresh juice brand in 2011. The more »

  • What This Food Company's Results Say About the Industry

    By Lee Samaha - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, MKC, MCD, YUM

    If you share my opinion that the market is getting a little too much in love with food stocks right now then the recent results from McCormick (NYSE: MKC) will have done little to allay any concerns. While they were perfectly okay, they didn’t offer much upside potential to a stock already trading on a lofty evaluation. On a more positive note, I think there are one or two more »

  • Stock Selections Post CAGNY

    By Madhu Dube - April 2, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, CAG, KRFT

    Consumer Analysts Group of New York (CAGNY) is a good platform for companies to meet the analysts and convey their performance every year. For 42 years this group has brought the corporates closer to its investors. In late Feb 2013, CAGNY organized this year’s annual gathering in which many FMCG giants ran their presentations. Taking into considerations, the disclosures made during this meet I decided to analyze three stocks more »

  • 3 Stocks to Exit Soon With Plunging Net Payout Yields

    By Mark Holder - April 1, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, CB, TRV

    With dividends and high yields in vogue these days, investors need to be careful that they don’t overpay for these stocks. Some of the stocks have performed so well over the last couple of quarters that their share prices have surged 30-50% during that time period, which is odd for multi-billion dollar consumer goods and insurance stocks.

    This issue faces the investors in Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB), Chubb (NYSE: CBmore »)

  • 5 Market-Beating Dividend Picks From This Top Performing Income Fund

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: AJG, CPB, CAG, R

    The KEELEY Mid Cap Dividend Value Fund is one of this year’s best performing equity income mutual funds. With a total return of 13.45% so far this year, the fund ranks third best in its category, according to Wall Street Journal’s “Mutual Fund Scorecards” application. The fund owes its top performance to a select group of dividend stocks of undervalued mid-cap companies with market capitalization between $1 more »

  • Voting for the Best Food Stocks of 2013

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - March 25, 2013 | Tickers: CALM, CPB, KRFT

    Ruth Reichl, former editor-in-chief of Gourmet Magazine, once said, "You only vote for a president once every four years. But you get to vote three times a day, every day, with your dollar." What companies are consumers voting for everyday?

    The most important meal of the day

    Breakfast, lunch, and dinner...the money spent on shopping, creating, and consuming these three meals at home is 7.7% of the average more »

  • A Shiny Dividend in Your Cereal Box

    By Timothy Green - March 22, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, K

    With iconic brands such as Cheerios, Betty Crocker, Lucky Charms, Gold Medal, Yoplait, and Pillsbury, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) been able to generate robust cash flows over the years. The company has increased its revenue by 60% since 2003 while earnings have more than doubled. The dividend has also more than doubled in the last ten years, and the company recently announced a 15% quarterly dividend increase effective later this more »

  • The Best Food Company, Not Who You Think

    By Marshall Hargrave - March 19, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, CAG, GIS, K, MDLZ

    Mondelez International Inc (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is quite the dividend and growth combo stock, and is better positioned than the other major food stocks with its robust international exposure  The stock pays a dividend yield of 1.8% and could be undervalued by as much as 15%. Mondelez is the result of a 2012 division of Kraft Foods; Mondelez makes up the global snacks company, and the spinoff, Kraft Foods Group more »

  • Two Elephants Buffett Would Like

    By Federico Zaldua - March 15, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, K

    The H.J. Heinz takeover by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital at $72.50 per share (or almost 21 times 2013 earnings) made me think of two other companies with similar competitive strengths: globally strong distribution networks and strong brands. The companies I thought of were the almost entirely family owned Campbell Soup (NYSE: CPB) and Kellogg Company (NYSE: K). When I take a look at how much more »

  • With a Stock Like Smucker’s, It Has to be Good!

    By Evan Buck - March 14, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, SJM, KRFT

    The J.M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM) is still headquartered in the same small town of Orrville, Ohio, where Jerome Smucker first sold apple butter out of a horse-drawn wagon long ago in the late 1800s. The company has become a strong presence in the culinary market as the purveyor of various preserves and jams, but there is more to the company than simply delicious strawberry jelly. Overall, Smucker’s more »

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