Packaged Foods & Meats

JP Morgan has upgraded Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) from Neutral to Overweight and has raised the price target from $21 to $23.

Below are the top meat products stocks on the NYSE in terms of PEG ratio BRF-Brasil Foods SA (NYSE: BRFS) has a PEG ratio of 0.62. BRFS' trailing-twelve-month revenue is $13.87 billion. Smithfield Foods Inc (NYSE: SFD) has a PEG ratio of 0.80. SFD's trailing-twelve-month ROE is 13.57%. Tyson...

Welcome to edition forty nine of Insider Weekends. Insider buying increased with insiders purchasing $30.07 million of their stock last week when compared to $12.14 million in the week prior. Selling also increased with insiders selling $2 billion worth of stock compared to $1.69 billion in the...

Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. has signed an agreement to sell its entire 100% equity stake in Gondwana Engineers Ltd. for $10.5 million to Doshion Veolia Water Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a unit of Ahmedabad's Doshion Ltd. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. , or Sinopec, Asia's largest oil refiner by...

Hello everyone!!! Please accept my apologies for missing the update on Thursday, this was due to a problem on Google servers that kept me from doing any update, i even tried this morning but the service was still under maintenance. Fortunately the problem was already solved by the engineers of...

(TheStreet) -- Stocks were trading nearly 1% lower Friday, driven by rising inflation concerns and a stronger dollar. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 118 points, or 0.9%, at 12,578. The S&P 500 was lower by 12 points, or 0.9%, at 1337, and the Nasdaq was off by 31 points, or 1.1...

NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA), provider of visual computing technologies and the inventor of the graphics processing unit, is down 6.3% premarket to $19.22, relative to a 52-week range of $8.65-$26.17. Penson Worldwide (PNSN), provider of a range of critical securities and futures processing...

Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE: SLE) today announces the following with regard to the anticipated sale of its Insecticides business to SC Johnson: Due to competition concerns raised by the European Commission, the parties have abandoned the transaction as originally notified and have withdrawn the...

Analysts at Goldman Sachs upgraded Dean Foods Company (NYSE: DF) from “neutral” to “buy.” DF's shares closed at $12.28 yesterday. DF's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $12.12 billion. Analysts at Robert W. Baird upgraded Ventas Inc (NYSE: VTR) from “underperform” to “neutral.” VTR's shares closed...

Goldman Sachs, which upgraded shares of Dean Foods Co. (NYSE: DF), is providing some color on the stock. “We are upgrading to Buy (was Neutral) and see 55% upside in a year and potential doubling in two years,” Goldman Sachs. “We believe margins have now troughed and we see a path to margin...

Pre-open movers US stock futures are higher this morning, after data showed strong Q1 growth in the euro zone. Gold and silver prices also surged, while the US dollar dropped versus major currencies. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 14 points to 12,686.00 and futures on the S&...

Bank of America, citing the reactivation of a share repurchase plan, has raised its price target on Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) from $17 to $18 and maintains its Underperform rating on the stock. Says Bank of America, in the report, “Tyson Foods announced today that its board of directors has...

Goldman Sachs has upgraded Dean Foods (NYSE: DF) from Neutral to Buy and has raised the price target from $10 to $19.

Bank of America has raised the price objective on Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) from $17 to $18 and maintains its Underperform rating.

Alright, so this is the environment that we're looking at: Rising inflation concerns, falling commodities prices, diminishing risk appetite and several other factors that indicate paring back a portfolio's beta in the near- to medium-term may is probably a fine idea. Sounds like a good time to...