Top 10 Worst Marketing Campaigns Ever Produced
Wondering which are the worst marketing campaigns ever produced? It has come to be evident that a marketing campaign can pretty much determine a product...
Posts Tagged ‘McDonalds (MCD)’
Grab a Bite: The Most Popular Fast Food Restaurants in America
It’s no mystery that McDonald’s is one of the most popular fast food restaurants in America and the world, but the legendary hamburger giant isn’...
Apple Inc (AAPL): What To Expect From Apple Pay Launch Tomorrow
Apple Pay will hit the stores tomorrow and all the details related to how the new payment method will function are already available. According to abcNews...
10 Best Fast Food Franchises to Purchase
If you’re in the market to purchase a franchise with a recognizable name, you’re probably curious which are the best fast food franchise to...
Beverage Highlights: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (GMCR)’s Award, Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz & Sodastream International Ltd (SODA)
Editor’s Note: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. (NASDAQ:GMCR), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX), Sodastream International Ltd (NASDAQ:SODA...
Billionaire Jim Simons’s Renaissance Bought Apple Inc. (AAPL), Sold Google Inc (GOOG) In Q2
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is one of the most widely held stocks in the hedge fund universe, though it’s always big news when a multi-billionaire...
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Stock Picks Include Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.B)
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust is a long term investor whose capital is used to fund ongoing foundation activities and invested to sustain...
Renaissance Technologies’s Long Term Stock Picks Include McDonald’s Corporation (MCD)
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors, including Renaissance Technologies, the highly successful hedge...
Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) a Good Stock to Buy?
Earlier in July, Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) released its results for the second quarter of its fiscal year (the quarter which ended June 15th of 2013...
Is Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) A Good Stock to Buy?
Despite its large size, Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) had a quite successful second quarter of its fiscal year (Q2 ended in March), with the company...
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s +3% Yielders Include Apple Inc. (AAPL)
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds, including billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group. Even though the information...
Billionaire Richard Chilton’s 3% Yield And Higher Picks Include McDonald’s Corporation (MCD)
In May, billionaire Richard Chilton’s Chilton Investment Company filed its 13F for the first quarter of 2013 with the SEC, disclosing many of its long...
Scout Capital Management Buys Up 5.5% of Tim Hortons Inc. (USA) (THI)
Scout Capital Management, a hedge fund managed by James Crichton and Adam Weiss, has reported a position of 8.4 million shares in Tim Hortons Inc. (USA...
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Has Been Buying The Walt Disney Company (DIS), Selling The Procter & Gamble Company (PG)
We track quarterly 13F filings from hundreds of hedge funds and other notable investors as part of our work researching investment strategies (we have...
Starbucks Corporation (SBUX): An Insider-And Former Defense Secretary-Is Guzzling Shares
About a year ago, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates joined the Board of Directors of Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX). Now a Form 4 filed with...
Is Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG) a Buy After Earnings?
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) beat earnings expectations in its results for the first quarter of 2013, with the company reporting a 13% increase...
McDonald’s Corporation (MCD), Occidental Petroleum Corporation (OXY): Billionaire Richard Chilton’s High-Yielders
We track 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors as part of our work researching investment strategies (we have found, for example, that...
McDonald’s Corporation (MCD) and Its Peers Are Not Cheap
At the beginning of this year, McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) was the most popular restaurant stock among the hedge funds and other notable investors...
McDonald’s Corporation (MCD), The Coca-Cola Company (KO) & Contrarian Thinking: Raise Cash As Americans Spend?
Americans are firmly back into their old ways, saving virtually nothing and spending the rest. A recent piece from The Economist documents the short-...
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Dividend Picks Include McDonald’s
Ken Griffin officially founded Citadel Investment Group in 1990 after years of trading options (including in his college dorm room) and has since become...
Starbucks and More Popular Restaurant Stocks Among Hedge Funds
We analyze hundreds of 13F filings from hedge funds and other notable investors to develop investment strategies and provide other useful information...
Bill Miller and Legg Mason Sticking with Apple Inc. (AAPL), Bullish on McDonald’s Corporation (MCD)
At Insider Monkey, we’ve recently teamed up with MarketWatch to create the Billionaire Hedge Fund Index, which returned 24.3% last year, outpacing the...
Hedge Funds’ Most Popular Consumer Services Stocks Include Amazon
We think that there are a number of ways for investors to use quarterly 13F filings, which are filed six to seven weeks after the end of a quarter and...
A Board Member Thinks Yum Isn’t That Bad
Robert Walter, a member of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM)’s Board of Directors, bought 35,000 shares of the stock on February 6th at an average price...
Horizon Kinetics Owns 6% of Wendy’s
Murray Stahl’s Horizon Kinetics has reported a position of over 23 million shares in The Wendy’s Company (NASDAQ:WEN), giving it ownership of 6% of...
What Can Investors Expect from Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG)?
Just twelve short months ago, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) was widely considered to be the “Amazon” of the fast-casual world—a highflying...
Has Yum Bitten Off More Than It Can Chew in China?
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) was down over 4% on January 8th after the company assured investors that its 2012 earnings would indeed come in within its...
J.P. Morgan’s Best Ideas for 2013 Include Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Just in time for the new year, chief U.S. equities strategist at J.P. Morgan Tom Lee appeared on CNBC on December 31st to discuss the firm’s outlook...
Billionaire Ken Griffin Bought Brinker International
A 13G filed with the SEC has disclosed that Citadel Investment Group, which is managed by billionaire Ken Griffin, owns just over 4 million shares of...
These Are Hedge Funds’ 10 Favorite Restaurant Stocks
The 13Fs for the third quarter of 2012 are in and we can not only comb through our database and determine the most popular stocks among hedge funds but...
Cisco, Dell, McDonald’s and More: Dirt Cheap Dividend Stocks
In the eight decades prior to 2010, dividends accounted for a whopping 44% of the total return of the stock market. The opportunity to invest in a cheap...
Bill Gates Still Loves Warren Buffett’s Berkshire
Bill Gates’s Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust is a $17+ billion portfolio that manages assets to fund the billionaire’s charitable...
Apple Inc (AAPL), Google Inc (GOOG) Among the Stocks RenTech Downsized In Q3
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) was just one of the top-name stocks that Renaissance Technologies was dumping during the third quarter. Other big names that...
Don’t Panic Over Low Sales At McDonald’s
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) dipped slightly on higher than normal volume after the restaurant- which had topped our rankings of the most popular...
Starbucks (SBUX): This Coffee Company is a Hot Commodity
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX) released 2Q results that were better than expected, sending the company up over 8% shortly after financials were made...
Is Chipotle (CMG) Now a Value Play?
When 2012 is all said and done, and investors look back, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) will be remembered as one of the most disappointing...
Will Panera (PNRA) End Up Like Chipotle (CMG)?
Panera Bread Co. (NASDAQ:PNRA) was up almost 7% today on 3Q earnings that were 4% above estimates and 27% above the same quarter last year, being driven...
Is McDonald’s (MCD) Still a Good Investment?
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) saw an almost 4% pullback in its stock price after it released third quarter results late last week. McDonald’s...
Insider Trading Report: McDonald’s (MCD), General Electric (GE), Schlumberger (SLB) and More
This article is an update of an earlier, pre-earnings piece. It can be read in its entirety here. Insider trading activity is an underused and under-reported...
Bearish options action in athenahealth as shares slide
athenahealth, Inc (NASDAQ:ATHN) – A downgrade to ‘underperform’ from ‘hold’ with a 12-month share price target of $60.00 at Jefferies sent...
Is Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) a Good Investment?
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), the Tex-Mex fast food chain, was down as much as 14% following its 3Q earnings announcement. The company has...
Insider Trading Activity with Earnings on Deck: MCD, GE, SLB, HON, BHI
Insider trading activity is an underused and underreported indicator of a stock’s sentiment. After all, who better to judge a company than its own...
Is Taco Bell Carrying Yum Higher After All?
One critical argument in David Einhorn’s short recommendation of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) at this month’s Value Investing Congress...
Dunkin’s Head Honcho Has Been Selling, Should You?
Dunkin Brands Group Inc (NASDAQ:DNKN)’s Chairman, Jon Luther, sold off another 20,000 shares in a Form 4 filing last week. Since the beginning of September...
Is Jack in the Box a Great Idea?
In the Value Investing Challenge, over 100 contestants submitted investment ideas to a panel of judges, who then selected three proposals to be voted...
Einhorn Is Right on Chipotle
It’s hard to think of a better example of “love the company, hate the stock” than Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG). Maybe Amazon. Maybe....
Buyers Beware: The Dow’s 3 Biggest Losers
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (INDEXDJX:.DJI) was one of the modern world’s first market indicators. Today the price-weighted index is comprised...
McMergers & Acquisitions: A Corporate Actions Assessment of McDonald’s (MCD)
Though McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) owned a majority stake in Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG) it divested itself by 2006. It also divested...
McDonald’s (MCD) Fundamental Analysis: is the McMeal going to hash it?
This week we look at McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD). With a market cap of over USD $93 billion and some 33,510 fast food outlets in 119 countries...
Why Did Lone Pine Capital Trade Green Mountain Coffee for Dunkin Donuts?
Dunkin Brands Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DNKN), more commonly known as Dunkin Donuts, has attracted even more hedge fund interest. Stephen Mandel’s Lone Pine...
