Packaged Foods & Meats

B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year 2010. Highlights * Net sales increased 4.6% to $141.9 million for the quarter and 2.5% to $513.3 million for the year * Net income increased more than 100% for the quarter to $14.3 million...

B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) today reported financial results for the fourth quarter. Net sales increased 4.6% to $141.9 million for the quarter and 2.5% to $513.3 million for the year Net income increased more than 100% for the quarter to $14.3 million and 85.6% for the year to $32.4 million...

Below are the top large-cap processed & packaged good stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of return on equity. The trailing-twelve-month return on equity at Campbell Soup Company (NYSE: CPB) is 83.32%. CPB's revenue for the same period is $7.62 billion. The trailing-twelve-month return...

General Mills (NYSE: GIS), the second-largest U.S. food company by market value, and Switzerland-based Nestle (PK: NSRGY), the world's largest publicly traded food, are reportedly among the top bidders for PAI Partners' 50% stake in Yoplait. Yoplait shareholders Sodiaal and PAI said in January that...

Shares of Chiquita Brands International (NYSE: CQB) are higher on the session by 3.95%, trading at $17.10. Overall call volume is now running at 2.44x the daily average, with 77% of all calls traded being purchases on the offer. 1,318 contracts have traded on the session so far. Chiquita Brands...

Kraft Foods (NYSE: KFT) announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld a lower court's ruling denying Kraft's request for a preliminary injunction against Starbucks Coffee Company. The injunction would have stopped Starbucks from unilaterally ending its strategic...

The court has ruled in favor of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and against Kraft (NYSE: KFT).

Cusick's Corner The bounce in the market into the Midday gives traders and investors a sigh of relief, but it's just for the moment. As I noted on Tuesday and Wednesday, there was a lot of selling but it was not a panic-stricken kind of selling, but rather looked like some bigger traders...

The Board of Directors of Kraft Foods Inc.(NYSE: KFT) has declared a regular quarterly dividend of $0.29 per common share of Class A stock. This dividend is payable on April 14, 2011, to stockholders of record as of March 31, 2011.

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ: GMCR) is trading lower today. At the time of posting, shares of GMCR were trading at $40.12, down 3.28% from Thursday's close.

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only...

Shares of H. J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ) are higher on the session by 1.60%, currently trading at $49.72. The stock had been moving largely lower over the past four months, but recently popped higher. It is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying...

Shares of El Paso Corp (NYSE: EP) dropped about 2% after the company reported its Q4 earnings at $62 million, or $0.09 per share, versus $265 million, or $0.36 per share, in the year-earlier period. The company's adjusted net income came in at $0.20 per share. EP's revenue dropped to $984 million...

Jefferies & Company has published a research report on Sanderson Farms (NASDAQ: SAFM) after the company reported significant losses to EPS in its 1Q, falling below analyst estimates. In the report, Jefferies writes "SAFM reported an F1Q operating loss of $0.87, well below the Street estimate...

Smart Balance, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMBL) today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2010. Net sales were $62.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2010, compared to net sales of $58.9 million in the fourth quarter of 2009, an increase of 6.5%. Earnings per...