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Cage-free eggs: What are you paying for, and are they better?
Cage-free eggs are the latest forefront in the constant PR campaign of many leading retail companies to be seen as the humanest, the most animal-friendly, the most vigilant about the health of its products. As indication of the bigness of this ...
No egg on Cal-Maine's face
Back in my hedge fund days, we did a TON of work on U.S. egg prices. This was back in 2003-2004 in the throes of the Atkins craze. Pasta companies, companies with a lot of exposure to grain, and anything anti-Atkins was taking a hit. Even the great, ...
Too many eggs in the basket?
Minyanville Professor David Miller dares to share the kind of keen insight and actionable information you won't find in any prospectus. For more original thought, visit www.minyanville.com.
Professor Miller,
I just saw news of Merck & Co., Inc. ...
Citi goes cyber, buys Egg
Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C) may not be able to control expenses, but its sure can buy companies. The big U.S. financial service company has just bought British online banking outfit Egg from Prudential (NYSE:PUK). The price was apparently £575 ...
WPP pays to play with VideoEgg
Boasting a market cap of $19 billion, WPP Group (ADS) (NASDAQ: WPPGY) focuses on the communications needs of major clients and produces multi-million dollar ad campaigns. To protect its franchise, the company is moving into social networking and ...
All Egg McMuffins, all the time
According to a report in today's Chicago Business McDonald's Corp. (NYSE:MCD) may be making changes in the equipment and procedures of its restaurants to allow it to offer breakfast menu items throughout the day. Its new "breakfast optimization" ...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer dodges 3 eggs to the face
Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer was in the middle of a speech to students at Budapest's Corvinus University when a young man demanded that he give the Hungarian people back the money that he'd stolen, and then calmly tossed three eggs at ...
Sunday Funnies: Last one out is a rotten egg!
The stock market has taken some big hits lately with the Dow down 387 - still preaching calm and change certainly being the most notable sign of fear amid many down days. But why? Why the selling? Why the fear? The reason is so simple and cannot be ...
America Recycles: A farm-fresh lifestyle in a box; Truth about cage-free eggs
Today is America Recycles Day! Why not do some recycling? Sure, I didn't cut down any trees to create these posts, but I think they're in the spirit of the day. Here are my two favorite posts from the past year. Selling you a farm-fresh lifestyle in ...
Everyone's gotta eat, right? Food stocks may not be as defensive as you think
I often talk stocks with my father, and he believes that with the economy in tatters, the big beneficiaries in the coming year will be companies that produce and sell food. His simple theory is that with discretionary spending at a minimum, ...
Cage match: How Alicia Silverstone whooped Paris Hilton with a hen
In the battle of the fast food restaurants, it's hardly ever about taste or service or quality: it's all about perception (and as my former car salesman boss says, perception is reality). So when I saw the news this week about how CKE Restaurants ...
Option Update: Cal-Maine Foods volatility elevated into EPS, $3 dozen eggs
Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ: CALM), a producer and marketer of fresh shell eggs, is expected to report Q3 EPS on March 31. CALM shares have rallied 173% over the past 12 months. CALM will initiate a variable dividend policy during Q3 to replace a fixed ...
The week in preview: Holiday sales, Cal-Maine Foods
As the calendar year winds down, the news no doubt will be full of stories (like the one below from AP) analyzing incoming holiday sales figures and speculating on what they mean for the big picture.
About the only confirmed company reporting ...
Cal-Maine drops on Q2 earnings miss
Egg producer Cal-Maine Foods Inc. ( NASDAQ: CALM) reported on Monday that its fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 32% to $27.2 million, or $1.14 per share. Revenue rose 7% from a year ago to $238.3 million.
Analysts surveyed by Thomson Financial ...
Housing sector slump seen decreasing some Baby Boomers' nest eggs
Baby Boomers, in some cases already facing the 'double demands' of caring for kids and aging parents, have another economic concern, at least for the next phase of the housing cycle: substantially lower household net worth, as a result of declining ...
Closing Bell: Dubai sends jitters throughout the market (S, BBY)
Heinz looking good after the second quarter?
Why isn't Bank of America updating its shareholders on CEO situation?
