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  • Sorry...Your Savings Account Stinks

    By Adem Tahiri - May 22, 2013 | Tickers: BH, CBRL, PEP, TIF

    These days, it's tough to be a saver. Bonds, savings accounts, and CD's are paying paltry yields. For this reason, you need to be more informed about dividend stocks than ever before.

    Great dividend stocks, unlike savings accounts, usually see their pay-outs go higher over time.

    Yep, with savings accounts now yielding much less than 1%, it's no wonder that dividend stocks are more popular than ever more »

  • A Million Bucks isn't Necessary for These Hedge Fund-like Stocks

    By Jordan Wathen - May 20, 2013 | Tickers: BH, CBRL, GLRE

    One of the many disadvantages of a hedge fund is that you have to be wealthy, very wealthy, to invest in one. Not only do hedge funds have client minimums, but SEC regulations also require investors be “accredited,” having more than $200,000 in annual income or a net worth (less primary real estate) of more than $1 million.

    Despite the limitations, there are a few ways around these problems more »

  • Which is a Better Long-Term Investment, Fast Food or Restaurants?

    By Michael Carter - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: CBRL, DRI, DPZ, MCD, YUM

    If you try to narrow down one single deciding factor that favors either fast food or restaurant stocks, the metrics are all over the place. If one is going purely by share price change, then Domino’s Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) has been the better buy by far the last 5 years. However, any long-term investor knows that past performance isn’t really a good indicator of future performance. If you more »

  • Will This Stock Go Higher?

    By Sonam Chamaria - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: CAG, CBRL, GIS, KRFT

    This packaged food company has been trying its best to gain market share over its competitors. Despite doing so, its net income dropped this quarter. What can it mean? Let's have a look.

    ConAgra Foods (NYSE: CAG), the packaged food provider released its third quarter results.

    Mixed bag

    Total sales this quarter amounted to $3.85 billion, up 13.4% from the previous year. Net income dropped by 57 more »

  • Cracker Barrel is Country Strong

    By julianwillis - April 1, 2013 | Tickers: CBRL, DENN, DIN

    Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ: CBRL), the Southern-inspired restaurant operator and country kitsch gift store, is currently outclassing its publicly traded competitors in a variety of business metrics. Here are three reasons why the Lebanon, Tenn., company and operator of 621 restaurants should see its stock price appreciate 10% this spring and crack $90 per share by June.

    1. Quarterly revenue momentum
    First, let's run down some key more »

  • These Restaurant Chains Have the Right Stuff

    By Robert Hanley - March 4, 2013 | Tickers: BLMN, BWLD, CBRL

    As employment levels rise and discretionary incomes increase, Americans are hitting the restaurant scene with greater frequency.  However, the majority of people still want value prices and diverse menu choices, as well as healthier food options.  The best operators in the casual dining segment stick with a consistent operating theme and build off of a niche customer base.  So, which chains are leading in the current marketplace?

    Cracker Barrel (NASDAQ: CBRLmore »)

  • Tuesday's Post-Earning Movers: Are These Worth Buying?

    By Brian Nichols - February 28, 2013 | Tickers: CBRL, M, TWI, TSL

    Earnings and earning-related news is the number one catalyst for stock movement. A strong quarter can dictate the direction of a stock for the following three months as can a bad quarter; in the past I have written in detail about such subjects, a domino effect following a strong or bad quarter. In this piece I am looking at the early performance of Tuesday’s top movers following earnings. Then more »

  • 5 High-Potential Picks From This Hedgie’s $600 Million Equity Portfolio

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - February 26, 2013 | Tickers: CBRL, RBA, SHOS

    In the world of hedge funds there are thousands of money managers. Many members of the financial press speciously shrug off this group, but a select group of hedgies is actually worth retail investors’ time. At Insider Monkey, we’ve found that by focusing on the best stock picks of the best hedge fund managers, it is possible to beat the market by a significant margin.

    Our small-cap strategy outpaced more »

  • The King of Steakburger's Shaky Quarter

    By j.a. graham - February 7, 2013 | Tickers: BH, CMG, CBRL

    There are a few ways a restaurant chain can increase revenue: they can open new restaurants, increase traffic, and increase prices for menu items. In short, earnings will grow if they can manage expenses and increase margins.  Biglari Holdings (NYSE: BH) failed to do all of these last quarter, and with a minimal revenue increase earnings per share fell.

    Steak ‘n Shake/Western Sizzlin's (restaurant operations only) revenue grew more »

  • Building My Dividend Porfolio

    By Karin Hernandez - January 3, 2013 | Tickers: CBRL, DRI, MCD

    This is part three of a ten-part series, which I will be publishing every week until the entire portfolio has been introduced. You can see Part One here, where I discussed my first addition, Abbott Laboratories; Part Two, where I discussed PartnerRe Limited; and Part Three, where I discussed Enterprise Products Partners.

    I have been analyzing dividend companies for about six months. Now I am constructing a model portfolio of more »

  • This Restaurant Concept is Firing on All Cylinders

    By John Macris - December 3, 2012 | Tickers: BH, CBRL, MCD, YUM

    During my high school tennis career, I remember visiting Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (NASDAQ: CBRL) restaurants throughout the Midwest with my teammates and coaches. If readers had asked me to consider the future of the Cracker Barrel brand in years past, through deductive reasoning I would have speculated the company may face significant hurdles in the form of increased competition by the likes of Panera Bread (NASDAQ: PNRA) and more »

  • Marcato Capital Goes For Some Applebee’s With DineEquity

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - November 30, 2012 | Tickers: EAT, CBRL, DRI, DENN, DIN

    At the end of September, Marcato Capital had owned about 770,000 shares of DineEquity (NYSE: DIN), a $1.2 billion market cap restaurant company which owns the Applebee’s and IHOP brands (check out more stocks that Marcato owned). The fund has since increased that stake to just over 1 million shares, giving it ownership of 5.5% of the shares outstanding. Marcato is managed by Richard McGuire, who more »

  • Earnings Review: Bloomin' Brands

    By Jon Quast - November 23, 2012 | Tickers: BLMN, CBRL, DRI, RT

    In my article entitled Earnings Preview: Bloomin' Brand I shared with you the one thing that I would be looking for in Bloomin' Brands (NASDAQ: BLMN) latest earnings report.  We'll take a look at that in a bit, but right now let's take a look at how they did overall.

    Beat the Street

    First off, lets talk about something I wasn't looking for specifically.  I am typically more »

  • Biglari is Taking Aim at Unico American

    By Alex Gray - November 20, 2012 | Tickers: BH, CBRL, UNAM

    For the second time in two years, the director nominees of Biglari Holdings (NYSE: BH) have been rejected by the shareholders of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. (NASDAQ: CBRL).  Biglari currently owns approximately 18% of the outstanding Cracker Barrel shares and is the company’s largest shareholder.  However, a superior stock performance and a more focused management appeared to trump valid arguments presented by Biglari. 

    It is unclear what more »

  • Biglari Continues to be a Thorn

    By Alex Gray - November 1, 2012 | Tickers: BRK-B, BRK-A, BH, CBRL

    Much has been written about Sardar Biglari and his firm Biglari Holdings (NYSE: BH).  It seems the investment community either loves him or hates him. 

    Based on many articles I have read, there are several authors that take issue with Mr. Biglari and his methods.  However, since being elected to the board of Steak ‘n Shake (now Biglari Holdings) investors have been reasonably rewarded.  In addition, many have compared Mr more »

  • Earnings Preview: Bloomin' Brands

    By Jon Quast - November 1, 2012 | Tickers: BLMN, CBRL, DRI, RT

    Bloomin' Brands ) is home to several restaurant favorites in the casual dining sector.  In fact, according to some surveys, they have 3 of the top 10 casual dining restaurants in their portfolio, including top dog Bonefish Grill.  Other restaurants in their quiver include Outback Steakhouse and Carrabba's.

    Since Bloomin' Brands just went public a couple of months ago, the internet isn't completely saturated with financial reports and more »

  • Are These Stocks Worth Putting on Your Radar?

    By Brian Gorban - October 28, 2012 | Tickers: BH, CSCO, CBRL, MCD

    The stock market and investing in general has its way of humbling even the best of investors as nobody has proven to have a method that is truly infallible. However, one method that has proven to be useful in determining whether a stock is moving higher is insider buying due to one simple reason: insiders accumulate shares, just like the common investor, to make more money. Furthermore, insiders arguably are more »

  • Strong Insider Action Signals Growth and Caution

    By Joshua Bondy - October 19, 2012 | Tickers: STZ, CBRL, JNS, MERC

    Insider trading is a very helping signal of the future prospects of a stock. As researchers in this paper show, over longer time periods a portfolio based on insider trading can generate abnormal returns. Their portfolio based on insider purchases generated abnormal returns of 6% per year. Insiders have a special view of the inner workings of their firms. In addition, top executives are in charge of capital expenditure programs more »

  • Heavy Insider Buying at This Major Restaurant Company

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 27, 2012 | Tickers: CBRL, DRI, DENN, JACK, CAKE

    There are many indicators used by investors in the financial world today. One of the most under-appreciated forms of analysis is insider trading sentiment. In most cases, individuals would be wise to consider the transactions performed by employees or board members within a specific company, because they have been proven to outperform the market by an average of 7 percentage points a year over the past half-century.

    While it is more »

  • Let’s Wine and Dine

    By Somnath Guha - September 26, 2012 | Tickers: CBRL, DRI, CAKE

     Eating is healthy for your investments. The restaurant industry is moving at a very fast pace. The full-service restaurants make for interesting value opportunities compared to quick service restaurants in the stock market.

    Eating out is healthy

    Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI)’s stock price rose 4% on September 21st as the company announced 85 cents per share of earnings for the quarter ending in August 2012, the first quarter more »

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