Food Retail

For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – November 18, 2010 – Zacks Equity Research highlights: Whole Foods Market (WFMI) as the Bull of the Day and Amdocs Ltd. (DOX) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Bank of America Corp. (BAC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM...

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI) recently jumped to a new multi-year high after reporting strong Q4 results that included an 18% earnings surprise. With an average earnings surprise of 18% over the last four quarters and bullish 13% next-year growth projection, this Zacks #1 rank stock offers a...

Whole Foods Market, Inc. (WFMI) recently jumped to a new multi-year high after reporting strong Q4 results that included an 18% earnings surprise. With an average earnings surprise of 18% over the last four quarters and bullish 13% next-year growth projection, this Zacks #1 rank stock offers a...

Whole Foods Market (WFMI) with a strong brand image offers investors one of the strongest growth profiles in the industry, and the stock is poised to surge, as the demand for natural and organic products improves. The company is also revamping its pricing strategy and concentrating more on value...

Cusick's Corner The market stayed focused on any potential interest rate moves and their possible impact on the global economy, especially if China does raise rates. In commodities like Copper, the initial impact was in sympathy down and overall the continued stress from growth in that region, in...

Shares of SUPERVALU (NYSE: SVU) are lower on the session by 1.06%, trading at $10.22. Overall call volume is now running at 2.85x the daily average, with 30% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 5,637 contracts have traded on the session so far. SUPERVALU INC. is a United States...

Valassis (NYSE: VCI) announced today that it has entered into a multi-year partnership with The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P) (NYSE: GAP) to develop and execute in-store marketing and media programs. The new partnership will maximize efficiencies across the A&P family of...

Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 24,000 last week to 435,000. This more than reverses last week's spike, and once again raises hopes that we might be able to get out of the “trading range” that initial claims have been in for the last year. Initial claims have been generally...

Arden Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ARDNA) today released its sales and income figures for the third quarter ended October 2, 2010. Sales $ 100,308,000 Operating income $ 5,756,000 Net income $ 3,454,000 EPS $ 1.09

Susser Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SUSS) announced on Tuesday morning that it beat consensus Wall Street earnings estimates, while missing revenue expectations. Susser Holdings Corporation reported that its 3rd quarter net earnings rose to $9.0 million, or 52 cents per share, up from $6.5 million...

Analysts at BMO Capital Markets downgrade Ruddick Corporation (NYSE: RDK) from "outperform" to "market perform." RDK's shares gained 1.35% to close at $39.74 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

According to a new report, J.P. Morgan is applauding SuperValu Inc. (NYSE: SVU) management for guiding down its 2010 outlook recently (from $1.75-$1.95 to $1.40-$1.60). “[We] still see risk to the Street's outlook for 2011 – JPM at $1.15 vs. Street at $1.54, which makes the stock still look a bit...

Analysts at HSBC upgrade Delhaize Group (ADR) (NYSE: DEG) from "neutral" to "overweight." DEG's shares lost 1.02% to close at $70.91 on Friday. More Analyst Ratings here

For Immediate Release Chicago, IL – November 5, 2010 – Zacks Equity Research highlights eBay (EBAY) as the Bull of the Day and Range Resources (RRC) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on Wal-Mart (WMT), Big Lots (BIG) and Kroger(KR). Full analysis of all...

There are a few stocks that had incredible moves today, such as Macy's (NYSE: M), New York Times (NYSE: NYT) and Whole Foods (NASDAQ: WFMI) Macy's gained 6.6% today on higher than expected same-store-sales. It closed at $25.56, a gain of $1.59. New York Times gained 8.2% today to close at $8.63,...