Food Retail

Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: WINN), today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, 13-week and 53-week periods, which ended on June 30, 2010. Net sales for the 13-week fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 were $1.7 billion, an increase of $30.1 million, or 1.8%...

Safeway Inc. (NYSE: SWY) announced that its Board of Directors met yesterday and declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.12 per share. The cash dividend will be payable on October 14, 2010 to stockholders of record at the close of business on September 23, 2010.

Despite a "competitive climate [that] remains tough and input costs [that] are rising," Jefferies & Co. maintained its Buy rating on shares of Kroger (NYSE: KR) today. In an client note, Jefferies & Co. points out that "Employment could be rolling over again which would pose further...

Shares of The Kroger Co. (NYSE: KR) are lower on the session by 2.01%, currently trading at $20.49. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past three months, but has sold off swiftly over the past week and is now below the 50-day moving average. Options traders are buying protection on...

Analysts at Citigroup reiterate their "sell" rating on Safeway Inc (NYSE: SWY). The target price for SWY is set to $20. According to Citigroup, “SWY’s Blackhawk Network announced that Don Kingsborough has been appointed Blackhawk’s Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors. In conjunction with...

I ran a quick screen looking for value stocks today. The metrics that I used were NYSE and NASDAQ listed stocks that had a market capitalization over $1 billion, a P/E ratio of less than 10, a price to book ratio of less than 1.2, a price to cash flow ratio of less than 9 and a dividend yield of...

Some of the stocks that may grab the investor focus today are: Wall Street expects Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ: SAFM) to report its FQ3 EPS at $1.87. SAFM’s shares gained 0.30% to close at $43.16 on Friday. Fitch Ratings raised the preferred stock rating of Bank of America Corp (NYSE: BAC) to an...

Cusick’s Corner Barring a headline overnight (or early in tomorrow’s session), all that we really have is equity options expiration, which at this stage should not add too much volatility unless the above happens. Bond yields did rebound into the After Hours which seemed to have helped equities...

Below are the top service stocks on the NYSE in terms of dividend yield. Alon Holdings Blue Square - Israel Ltd (NYSE: BSI) has a dividend yield of 12.70%. BSI’s shares closed at $11.29 yesterday. Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes SA (NYSE: GOL) has a dividend yield of 11.10%. GOL’s shares closed at...

Here are 5 stocks added to the Zacks #5 Rank ("strong sell") List today: Con-way Inc (CNW) Delhaize Group (DEG) Eastern Insurance Holdings Inc (EIHI) Elbit Systems Ltd (ESLT) Exterran Holdings Inc (EXH) View the entire Zacks #5 Rank List.    CON-WAY INC (CNW): Free Stock Analysis Report ...

Shares of Safeway Inc shares (NYSE: SWY) moved down after Longbow Research analyst Alton Stump downgraded the company from “neutral” to “sell.” The target price for the company is set to be $16. SWY’s shares dipped about 3.7% following the downgrade. Shares of Target Corp (NYSE: TGT) and BJ's...

In a Form 4 filed earlier today, Whole Foods Market Inc. (NASDAQ: WFMI) President, Anthony C. Gallo, reported that he sold 49,984 shares of WFMI on August 17th for an average price of $36.92. The transaction totaled $1,808,484. Mr. Gallo owns 8,169 direct shares of WFMI. Source: The Washington...

Deere & Co. (NYSE:DE) recently abandoned a nice uptrend that had taken the shares to a new closing high on August 9. This uptrend, driven in part by strength in the overall agriculture sector as Russia experienced a drought, came to a screeching halt as the broader market spun on its heels....

Before weekly options expanded to include weeklys on individual equities, it was rare for options expiration and corporate earnings reports to fall during the same week.  One week, at-the-money (ATM) options have very little time value, obviously, large gamma, and negative theta.  With such little...