Rob Citrone is the founder of Connecticut based hedge fund Discovery Capital Management, which had a 13F portfolio value of $4.71 billion as per their latest 13F filing, with ...
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December 4 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG) will release its quarterly report on Thursday, and investors are anxiously hoping that the company will give them some good news.
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September 17 - Earnings Report, News - Comments
General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) will release its quarterly report on Wednesday, and the cereal company climbed to all-time record highs last month as investors gravitated to the...
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September 17 - News - Comments
Today we're going to look at three global giants in the food products manufacturing sector; specifically chocolate, cereal, snacks and meat.
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September 10 - News - Comments
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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September 10 - News - Comments
Many investors feel constant pressure always to be doing something with their money.
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September 10 - News - Comments
Post Holdings Inc (NYSE:POST), manufacturer of such beloved brands as Alpha-Bits, Shredded Wheat, Pebbles, and Honey Bunches of Oats, has been branching out into crunchy granola...
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September 9 - News - Comments
Now that the millennial generation has entered the workforce -- most in the cohort are now in their 20s -- their habits and preferences are becoming crucial drivers of trends ...
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September 6 - News - Comments
Dividend stocks are everywhere, but many just downright stink. In some cases, the business model is in serious jeopardy, or the dividend itself isn't sustainable.
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September 3 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
The positive trend of achieving quick growth through acquisitions has become the norm in many industries and the packaged food industry is one of them.
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August 29 - News - Comments
Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) is the biggest cereal producer in the world, and it's second in cookies and crackers.
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August 29 - News - Comments
The broad-based S&P 500 may be nearly 4% off of its all-time highs set just a hair over two weeks ago, but you certainly wouldn't know it by the more than 2,100 stocks in the ...
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August 23 - News - Comments
Stuck with consumers who think Quaker Oats is just a boring breakfast brand, PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) is looking to give it a boost by making it into something that could give...
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August 6 - News - Comments
The Consumer Defensive sector offers plenty of opportunities for dividend-seeking investors.
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August 5 - News - Comments
In the recession of recent days, the packaged food industry plans to minimize the economic loss through restructuring and cost saving measures.
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July 29 - News - Comments
Activist investor Nelson Peltz is shaking things up in the snack food world. He recently expressed strong feelings about a proposed PepsiCo, Inc.
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July 25 - News - Comments
Last Month, General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS), the world's 9th-largest producer and marketer of packaged food and the 5th-largest in the United States, announced impressive FY13...
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July 25 - News - Comments
Nine weeks ago, I outlined my plans to create a portfolio of 10 companies that all have one thing in common: They provide a basic need or deliver life's necessities.
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July 23 - News - Comments
Kraft Foods Group Inc (NASDAQ:KRFT) is one of the best companies operating in the packaged food industry. The industry is very price competitive.
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July 19 - News - Comments
Investing in dividend stocks is one of the best ways to build wealth over long periods of time.
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July 19 - News - Comments
Kellogg Company (NYSE:K), General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS), and ConAgra Foods, Inc.
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July 16 - News - Comments
Paula Deen has seen her future earnings prospects dim after her admission of using a racial slur. She lost her show.
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July 15 - News - Comments
Shares of ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG) have advanced more than 35% in the past year. The company made a big splash during this span with the Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.
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July 10 - News - Comments
As an extreme couponer, losing the savings advantages of double coupons is a major hit to my grocery budget.
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July 5 - News - Comments
As major cereal brands announced good news in recent earnings reports, it was hard not to notice the cautious optimism in each company's words.
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July 5 - News - Comments
While many investors pursue the latest tech fad or the latest IPO, the supplier of your morning cereal, fruit bars, and morning sausage patties is also a great investment.
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July 3 - News - Comments
General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) is quite the delicious investment.
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July 3 - News - Comments
The processed and packaged foods industry is one of the major ones in the U.S. retail market.
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July 2 - News - Comments
In the past twelve months, food businesses like General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS), Groupe Danone SA (PINK:DANOY) and Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) experienced good growth.
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July 1 - News - Comments
It is a fact that China and India’s appetite for commodities over the last years has pushed up the prices of farm raw materials in a spectacular way.
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July 1 - News - Comments
The broad equity market is tumbling on Fed tapering signals. The dividend stocks in the market are the ones that are being hurt the most.
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June 26 - News - Comments
Mondelez International Inc (NASDAQ:MDLZ) is a leading company in the international confectionery arena with 30% of the gum category, 15% share of the chocolate market, and 7% ...
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June 25 - News - Comments
Peter Lynch once famously declared "buy what you know." We at Motley Fool find that is a great way to begin a search to find new investing opportunities.
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June 21 - News - Comments
Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) is a favorite among breakfast-eaters everywhere, with its cereals and other food products being an essential part of the diets of people around the world...
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June 21 - News - Comments
The best thing about the stock market is that you can make money in either direction. Historically, stock indexes have tended to trend up over the long term.
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June 19 - News - Comments
Companies that rely heavily on breakfast foods for revenue and earnings would likely agree.
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June 19 - News - Comments
Companies with significant international market operations are likely to experience higher growth rates and premium valuations. Mondelez International Inc (NASDAQ:MDLZ) is a ...
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June 18 - News - Comments
Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:DMND) has not been kind to its shareholders over the past two years.
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June 13 - News - Comments
Investors love stocks that consistently beat the Street without getting ahead of their fundamentals and risking a meltdown.
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June 13 - News - Comments
Food companies generally offer steady growth over time, but their returns have far exceeded the global benchmark indices over the last couple of years.
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June 12 - News - Comments
General Mills, Inc. (NYSE:GIS) is one of the leading food producers in the United States with a list of brands that are household names.
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June 12 - News - Comments
A leading manufacturer and marketer of a wide array of branded consumer foods, General Mills Inc. (NYSE:GIS) has outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average so far in 2013...
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June 11 - News - Comments
Fear sown by the 2007 market crash is likely to recede slowly, says Narayana Kocherlakota, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
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June 11 - News - Comments
Next Monday, Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:DMND) will release its latest quarterly results.
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June 7 - News - Comments
The market ebbs and flows based on investor sentiment. The need to eat never changes.
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June 5 - News - Comments
In the wake of the most recent recession, many consumers are rethinking past cavalier spending habits.
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May 30 - News - Comments
Consumer staples companies manufacture and sell products such as food, beverages, tobacco and household items.
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May 30 - News - Comments
Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) are a great way to accumulate shares of stable, dividend-paying investments for the long term.
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May 17 - News - Comments
It may have been a win for consumers, but cereal maker Post Holdings Inc (NYSE:POST) lost out when its second-quarter earnings got milled by falling prices on top of higher costs...
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May 14 - News - Comments
A few weeks back, I made the argument for why General Mills, Inc.
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May 8 - News - Comments
