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  • Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is

    By John Timmes - May 15, 2013 | Tickers: MCD, SONC, YUM

    In this article, we examine three stocks trading at or near 52-week highs.  All of the companies operate in the fast-food arena and provided very interesting quarterly earnings.

    The Bellwether

    McDonalds is the company most synonymous with the fast food industry.  The company now operates 34,480 restaurants in 119 countries since being founded in 1940.  As of this writing, the stock was trading around 102, just shy of the more »

  • Sonic's Cherry-Limeade Induced Sugar Hangover

    By Leo Sun - March 28, 2013 | Tickers: BKW, MCD, SONC, WEN | Editor's Choice

    Restaurant chain Sonic (NASDAQ: SONC), best known for its iconic drive-ins, recently surprised Wall Street with strong second quarter earnings that spurred the stock to rally nearly 10% on March 26. The company, founded in 1953 as a root beer stand and rebranded as Sonic in 1959, has had an interesting run since its public debut in 1991. The years leading up to the Great Recession were kind to Sonic more »

  • Three Companies That Reported Earnings on Monday: Value or Value Trap?

    By Brian Nichols - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: GMAN, JASO, SONC

    Earnings can be the best period of opportunity in the market, as they often set the trend for the following three months. However, it can also be a trap. Therefore, I am looking at each of the below companies' performance to determine if these reactions are creating value or a value trap.

    An Undervalued High-Risk Stock Gets Crushed After Earnings

    Gordmans Stores (NASDAQ: GMAN) announced earnings on Monday after the more »

  • Multiple Brands Definitely Help Yum! Right Now

    By Eric Novinson - March 26, 2013 | Tickers: MCD, PEP, SONC, YUM

    Yum! (NYSE: YUM) may have convinced Chinese diners to come back. After a chicken contamination scandal hit Chinese KFC restaurants hard last quarter Yum! warned that this problem could weigh on the company's results for the entire year. Now, Yum! looks like it might recover from this scandal sooner. And KFC isn't the only thing Yum!'s cooking up. Taco Bell has shaken up its menu, adding a more »

  • Earnings Watch: Valuable Insights on Apollo Group, Dollar General, and Sonic Corp

    By John Macris - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: APOL, DG, SONC

    As an investor, earnings season provides multiple usages for both opportunity and self-reflection.

    First, earnings season provides a quarterly “report card” for your portfolio. Investors should consider listening to the conference call or reading the call transcript in order to determine if a company's results are consistent with your original investment thesis. Second, earnings season creates unanticipated buying and selling opportunities based on market sentiment and emotion.

    With the more »

  • Multiple Brands Definitely Help Yum! Right Now

    By Eric Novinson - March 12, 2013 | Tickers: MCD, PEP, SONC, YUM

    Yum! (NYSE: YUM) may have convinced Chinese diners to come back. After a chicken contamination scandal hit Chinese KFC restaurants hard last quarter Yum! warned that this problem could weigh on the company's results for the entire year. Now, Yum! looks like it might recover from this scandal sooner. And KFC isn't the only thing Yum!'s cooking up. Taco Bell has shaken up its menu, adding a more »

  • Three Future Winners You Should Look At

    By Rupert Hargreaves - March 10, 2013 | Tickers: CTB, CYBX, SONC

    It can be hard to pick future winners. In fact, it is almost impossible to consistently pick small cap stocks that are destined for greatness. However, based on vigorous screening criteria, I have picked three stocks that I believe are destined for greatness, based on their current financial information.

    I have been searching for future winning equities based on the following criteria:

    1. Small market cap. – greater than $300 million but more »

  • Which Fast Food Companies Have Things Twisted?

    By Michael Carter - January 17, 2013 | Tickers: JACK, SONC, WEN

     

    Peanut butter and jelly, cinnamon and sugar, honey and ham, chicken and rice, spaghetti and meatballs, peas and carrots – these are some of the classic food pairings that just work well.  When it comes to fast food, there are some combinations that you just shouldn’t change, while every once in a while there is that one idea that revolutionizes not only the company, but the entire fast food industry more »

  • Full Circle on Fast Food

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - January 16, 2013 | Tickers: BKW, MCD, SONC, WEN

    The very first stock I ever blogged about was McDonald's ) and it's time to revisit it before earnings on January 22. McDonald's was a dog in 2012. No two ways about it. It was the stellar performer in 2011 and then CEO Jim Skinner retired and worldwide revenues slowed for the first time since 2003.

    Despite worldwide brand awareness McDonald's still has competitors enjoying more bullish more »

  • Fast-Food Stocks Can Bring Fast Profits

    By Nate Wooley - January 12, 2013 | Tickers: PNRA, SONC, SBUX, YUM

    Restaurant stocks are interesting. Sometimes I blow hot on them and sometimes cold. Just yesterday I was sitting with my family at a fast-food place in Summerville, SC and in the booth behind me the manager was interviewing a series of folks in their early 20s for positions. She (the manager) went on about what the job would entail and so forth, but mostly I focused on how much she more »

  • Earnings Preview for January 3-4, 2013

    By John Macris - January 2, 2013 | Tickers: FDO, SONC, FINL, MOS

    I’d like to open this piece by wishing readers a healthy and prosperous New Year.

    Despite a holiday-shortened week, with the markets closed on January 1, there are multiple earnings reports on Thursday, January 3, and Friday, January 4. Here are the companies I’ll be following in coming days and my expectations for each.

    Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO) This discount retailer of household goods will report first more »

  • Here’s One Insider That’s Bullish on Wendy’s

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - September 7, 2012 | Tickers: JACK, MCD, SONC, WEN, YUM

    Wednesday morning’s SEC Form 4 filings detail the insider transactions of A. Scott Weisberg, the Chief People Officer at Wendy’s  (NASDAQ: WEN). On this date, September 5th, Mr. Weisberg purchased 20,000 shares of WEN worth more than $80,000. The buys, which were made at an average purchase price of $4.32, increased Mr. Weisberg’s total holdings in his company by a factor of sixty more »

  • Buyers Beware: Two Large Caps With Growing Short Interest

    By Soroush Pour - August 30, 2012 | Tickers: FB, LNKD, MCD, SONC, YUM

    In the wide world of investment analysis, there are dozens of methods that can be used to determine the attractiveness of a particular stock. Indicators like trading volume, price volatility, and valuation metrics are some of the most popular (read here for more info); though we’re here to tell you that short selling activity should be on your radar as well.  In layman’s terms, a stock’s short more »

  • Grease is the Word

    By AnnaLisa Kraft - July 26, 2012 | Tickers: BKW, CMG, JACK, MCD, SONC, WEN

    So, the Dow was down as much as 239 points on Monday because of Spain and Grease...yes, grease. McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE: MCD) reported a rare miss before the open, its first in 10 quarters. (CNBC said the first miss in 7 ½ years). How uncomfortable it must be for new CEO Don Thompson to disappoint on his first earnings release. He cited a strong dollar, commodity costs and more »

  • Earnings Lowdown: Sonic

    By Brandy Betz - June 25, 2012 | Tickers: MCD, SONC

    Sonic Corp. (NASDAQ: SONC), the drive-in restaurant chain boasting over 3,500 locations in 43 states,  reported its third quarter last Wednesday. Shares were up $0.16 to $9.50 in after-hours trading that day and closed out Thursday up 2.89% to $9.61. What did the company report to get that raise?

    Earnings: Nuts & Bolts

    Total revenue was down nearly 2%, year-over-year, from $152.1 million to $149 more »

  • If Marijuana is Legalized, These Stocks May Elevate Your Portfolio

    By Soroush Pour - May 31, 2012 | Tickers: MO, BTI, JACK, LO, MCD, PM, RAI, SONC, WEN, YUM

    The cannabis plant is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States, with more than 17 million Americans estimated to use the "green stuff" every year.  While it has many other names -- ganja, weed, herb, Mary Jane, bud, kush, and pot, to name a few -- both users and non-users can agree that it represents a lucrative market for producers and distributors.  In fact, it is estimated that the more »