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McDonald's and Domino's Pizza to Open Near 52-Week Highs
Monday, December 12, 2011 - 6:57am | 345Restaurant chain operators McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) reached new multiyear highs of $98.43 and $35.00 per share, respectively, in Friday's trading session. McDonald's has a target for 2012 of adding 1,300 new restaurants and remodeling of 2,400 existing restaurants. And...
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Nine Food Stocks for a Hungry Portfolio
Thursday, December 8, 2011 - 11:06am | 932A hungry portfolio might find a pick-me-up in one or more of these food-related stocks, all of which have had some momentum in the past few months, if not longer. Breakfast General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is up more than 13% from a nine-month low in August, as well as up about 18% from a year ago. This...
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Boston Beer and Domino's Pizza to Open Near 52-Week Highs
Monday, December 5, 2011 - 6:51am | 355Ending a strong week in the stock market, consumer goods makers Boston Beer (NYSE: SAM) and Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) reached new multiyear highs of $105.08 and $34.05 per share, respectively, in Friday's trading session. Boston Beer is heavily shorted by the bears despite the stock's surge from...
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Five Stocks for John Lennon
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 - 1:09pm | 303On this day in 1981, Mark David Chapman pled guilty to killing John Lennon. Thankfully, his punishment meant that he was never able to shoot down another musical genius. It didn't help the Beatles though. It could be argued that Ringo Starr never recovered, at one point narrating the “Thomas the...
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Seven Fast Food Stocks Near 52-Week Highs
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 4:22pm | 759By and large, fast food restaurants continue to perform well as cost-conscious consumers still try to stretch a buck as they eat out. Though these companies also face higher commodity and production costs, some have been able to offset these costs with strategic price increases. Here are seven...