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  • Will You Be On The Mark With This Core Stock Pick?

    By Mark Lin - May 24, 2013 | Tickers: CORE, SYY, UNFI

    Peter Lynch loved to visit malls to seek out investment ideas. When you see convenience stores popping up in your neighborhood, Core-Mark Holding (NASDAQ: CORE), one of the largest distributor of fresh products to convenience stores in the U.S., might come up as an interesting investment candidate. Core-Mark is benefitting from the growth in single convenience stores and the increased focus on fresh food. Furthermore, it is undervalued relative more »

  • The Health-Food Trend Could Be Healthy For Your Portfolio, Too

    By Matthew Frankel - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: SYY, UNFI, WFM

    One trend that is obvious in America is that we as a culture are becoming more and more aware of our diets, and specifically how bad they’ve been for a long time. Every time I go out to eat, or go to the grocery store, there seems to be a new way to replace something that has been a staple of my diet with a natural or organic version more »

  • The Top 5 Dividend Companies of First Eagle Investment Management

    By Karin Hernandez - May 16, 2013 | Tickers: CINF, INTC, MSFT, SYY

    I’ve been writing about dividend stocks for nearly a year, and have written close to a hundred articles. I have devised my own ratings system and put together my top ten companies into what I call my Perfect Dividend Portfolio.

    My ratings criteria include factors such as yield, number of years paying and raising dividends, five-year Dividend Growth Rate (DGR), five-year projected Earnings Growth Rate (EGR), total return for more »

  • 5 Big Buys by Yacktman Asset Management in 1Q13

    By Aubrey Tabuga - May 13, 2013 | Tickers: CHRW, KO, JNJ, MSFT, SYY

    The five big buys of Yacktman Asset Management as of March 31, 2013, were Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), Sysco (NYSE: SYY), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), and C.H. Robinson Worldwide (NASDAQ: CHRW). Headed by the investment guru, Donald Yacktman, the hedge fund has a total of $19.52 billion of assets under management based on data compiled by whalewisdom.com.

    I have briefly analyzed all of these from more »

  • Three Newcomers to Citi's Safe Dividends List

    By Reuben Brewer - April 22, 2013 | Tickers: MSFT, NOC, SYY

    Barron's recently posted Citi's updated list of large, financially strong, high-yielding dividend paying companies. This month's list includes three new names worth considering: Sysco (NYSE: SYY), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC).

    The Citi list

    Each month, Citi creates a unique list of “safe” companies with big yields. The “safe” aspect is interesting because the company uses credit default swaps to gauge the market's more »

  • 3 Highest Yielding Stocks of the Yacktman Focused Fund

    By Anh HOANG - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: JNJ, MSFT, SYY

    Donald Yacktman, the President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Yacktman Asset Management, is managing around $17 billion in total assets. Over the past ten years, his Yacktman Fund has achieved an annualized gain of around 10.5%, while the more concentrated fund, the Yacktman Focused Fund, has been a bit better with an 11% annualized gain.

    In this article, we will take a closer look at the highest yielding stocks more »

  • 4 Dividend Stocks: 3 to Buy and 1 to Sell

    By siraj sarwar - April 17, 2013 | Tickers: EXC, SYY, TGT, WIN

    Investors intent on pursuing high dividend stocks must be careful to only select those that can sustain such payments over time. For a company to accomplish this, it must have good income statements, strong balance sheets and consistent cash flows. In this article, I picked three companies that have been delivering consistently growing returns and one struggling company to avoid.

    These three companies have strong financial statements to support consistently more »

  • 4 Dividend Stocks: 3 to Buy and 1 to Sell

    By siraj sarwar - April 15, 2013 | Tickers: EXC, SYY, TGT, WIN

    Investors intent on pursuing high dividend stocks must be careful to only select those that can sustain such payments over time. For a company to accomplish this, it must have good income statements, strong balance sheets and consistent cash flows. In this article, I picked three companies that have been delivering consistently growing returns and one struggling company to avoid.

    These three companies have strong financial statements to support consistently more »

  • 4 Dividend Stocks: 3 to Buy and 1 to Sell

    By siraj sarwar - April 15, 2013 | Tickers: EXC, SYY, TGT, WIN

    Investors intent on pursuing high dividend stocks must be careful to only select those that can sustain such payments over time. For a company to accomplish this, it must have good income statements, strong balance sheets and consistent cash flows. In this article, I picked three companies that have been delivering consistently growing returns and one struggling company to avoid.

    These three companies have strong financial statements to support consistently more »

  • Cisco, Microsoft: One Prominent Investor Is Backing

    By Meena Krishnamsetty - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: CSCO, CMCSK, TV, MSFT, SYY

    Hedge fund manager Jean-Marie Eveillard has been in finance for more than half a century; first with Societe Generale before taking over the SocGen International Fund. But through a convoluted history that started with S. Bleichroder in Berlin in 1803 through 1999 when Arnhold and S. Bleichroder acquired a majority share in Societe Generale Asset Management Corp, Eveillard finally found himself the portfolio manager for First Eagle Investment Management, part more »

  • Three Highest Yielding Stocks in Yacktman Focus Fund

    By Anh HOANG - April 14, 2013 | Tickers: JNJ, MSFT, SYY

    Donald Yacktman, a President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Yacktman Asset Management is managing around $17 billion in total assets. During the past ten years, his Yacktman Fund has achieved an annualized gain of around 10.5% while its more concentrated fund Yacktman Focused Fund has been a bit better with 11% annualized gain. In this article, we will take a closer look at the highest yielding stocks, which accounts more »

  • Four Dividend Stock: Three to Buy and One to Sell

    By siraj sarwar - April 13, 2013 | Tickers: EXC, SYY, TGT, WIN

    Investors intent on pursuing high dividend stocks must be careful to only select those that can sustain such payments over time. For a company to accomplish this, it must achieve good income statements, strong balance sheets and consistent cash flows. In this article, I pick three companies that have been delivering consistently growing returns and one struggling company to avoid.

    These three companies have strong financial statements to support consistently more »

  • 4 Dividend Stocks: 3 to Buy and 1 to Sell

    By siraj sarwar - April 13, 2013 | Tickers: EXC, SYY, TGT, WIN

    Investors intent on pursuing high dividend stocks must be careful to only select those that can sustain such payments over time. For a company to accomplish this, it must achieve good income statements, strong balance sheets and consistent cash flows. In this article, I pick three companies that have been delivering consistently growing returns and one struggling company to avoid.

    These three companies have strong financial statements to support consistently more »

  • Secure Your Portfolio With These "Food Chain" Companies

    By Steve Van - April 11, 2013 | Tickers: ADM, MON, RUTH, SYY, KR

    With market indexes hovering near all-time highs after significant advances this year, investing in defensive stocks is one way to protect your investments if a significant correction takes a bite out of stocks. One defensive theme that I like is “food chain” stocks because food is essential for human life and therefore these companies generate recurring revenues from constant consumer demand. From seed companies to food processors and the food more »

  • Secure Your Portfolio With These 'Food Chain' Stocks

    By Steve Van - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: ADM, MON, RUTH, SYY, KR

    With market indexes hovering near all-time highs after significant advances this year, investing in defensive stocks is one way to protect your investments if a significant correction takes a bite out of stocks. One defensive theme that I like is “food chain” stocks because food is essential for human life and therefore these companies generate recurring revenues from constant consumer demand. From seed companies to food processors and the food more »

  • This Convenience Store Distributor Is for the Long Run

    By Anh HOANG - March 28, 2013 | Tickers: CORE, SYY, UNFI

    Since 2009, one convenience store distributor has risen consistently, from $16.90 per share in March 2009 to more than $51 per share as of now. This company is also the fourth-largest holding of Brown Advisory Small Cap Fundamental Value Fund, accounting for 3.22% of its portfolio value. The company in question is Core-Mark Holding (NASDAQ: CORE). Should investors get bullish about Core-Mark at its current price? Let’s more »

  • Donald Yacktman's Top Five Picks

    By Marshall Hargrave - March 20, 2013 | Tickers: CSCO, NWSA, PEP, PG, SYY

    Donald Yacktman founded Yacktman Asset Management in 1992 and was named the "Portfolio Manager of The Year" by Morningstar in 1991. Per his 2012 investor letter, Yacktman has some big bets placed on consumer staples, not to mention one of the media giants.  

    Per his funds' prospectus, Yacktman buys companies that have growth opportunities, but are trading at low prices, employing the best of both worlds with growth and value more »

  • Good Things Come From Sysco

    By Shas Dey - March 18, 2013 | Tickers: CORE, SYY, UNFI

    The food retail and distribution segment has been growing due to the increased preference of consumers towards take out foods. The foodservice market in the United States and Canada is ~$225 billion. According to industry sources, the foodservice, or food-away-from-home, market represents approximately 46% of the total dollars spent on food purchases made at the consumer level in US. This segment is highly fragmented, and is comprised of ~15 more »

  • This Company Could Become One of Buffett's Favorites (Part 3)

    By Anh HOANG - March 9, 2013 | Tickers: CORE, SYY, UNFI

    In previous articles, I wrote about Archer Daniels Midland and Mosaic. Those two stocks belong to the Thomson Reuters' list of 28 stocks that have similar characteristics to those that Warren Buffett has bought in the past. In this article, I will talk about another consumer non-cyclical business in that list. It is Sysco (NYSE: SYY), a North American distributor of food and related products to the Foodservice, or the more »

  • A Portfolio of Safety Stocks

    By Ryan Peckyno - February 15, 2013 | Tickers: GIS, JNJ, KMB, SYY

    A few days ago, I started searching for the best Safety Stocks.  These are stocks that I feel will hold up well in the face of a bad economy or recession.  They make products that people need, have stable customer bases, have strong brands, and are solid performers in almost any environment.  They are stocks that an investment advisor was never fired for recommending. 

    You can expect these stocks to more »

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