DPZ posts
FeedPosted Oct 17th 2009 2:40PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Google (GOOG), General Electric (GE), Intel (INTC), International Business Machines (IBM), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Citigroup Inc. (C), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Bank of America (BAC), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Goldman Sachs Group (GS), Mattel, Inc (MAT), Allegheny Technologies (ATI), Harley-Davidson (HOG)
Continue reading Earnings highlights: C, GE, GOOG, HOG, INTC, IBM, JNJ, JPM, MAT, NOK ...
Posted Oct 13th 2009 11:50AM by Elizabeth Harrow (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Options
The shares of Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) gapped sharply lower this morning, despite a stronger-than-expected third-quarter profit. Ahead of the bell, Domino's reported net income of $17.8 million, or 31 cents per share, for the quarter ended Sept. 6. Excluding a $14.3 million pretax gain, Domino's profit of 17 cents per share was two cents better than analysts expected.
However, revenue for the period tumbled 6.5% to $302.7 million, falling well short of consensus estimates for $308.9 million. Same-restaurant sales were flat in the U.S., although they were up 2.7% internationally. With top-line results softer than expected, the pizza chain cited lower interest expense and tighter cost controls for the robust bottom-line results.
Continue reading Domino's Pizza drops, despite 3Q profit surprise
Posted May 15th 2009 10:10AM by Jim Cramer (RSS feed)
Filed under: Market matters, McDonald's (MCD), Brinker Intl (EAT), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Yum Brands (YUM), Burger King Hldgs (BKC), Calif Pizza Kitchen (CPKI), Stocks to Buy, Cramer on BloggingStocks
TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says Panera is one company that has plenty of room for expansion. If the restaurant stocks are stabilizing after a real downturn that has lasted for several weeks, this group -- a leadership group from the fall when gasoline fell in price -- is going to have a wicked move back.
I like
Yum! Brands (NYSE:
YUM) (
Cramer's Take), which never broke down. This is one in which technicians signaled weakness, with Top Gun Rick Bensignor and I going head to head on "Mad Money." He was right that it initially would downtick, but I think it is bottoming along with
McDonald's (NYSE:
MCD) (
Cramer's Take). It's got the growth and it has good tumbling raw costs. The dollar's going the way for both stocks.
Continue reading Cramer on BloggingStocks: Restaurants right for the taking
Posted May 2nd 2009 2:40PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Time Warner (TWX), Pfizer (PFE), Motorola (MOT), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Viacom (VIA), Revlon (REV), Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Procter and Gamble (PG), U.S. Steel (X), Under Armour'A' (UA), E*TRADE (ETFC)
Here are some highlights from this past week's earnings coverage from BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: P&G, DreamWorks, E*Trade, Netflix, Under Armour, Humana and more
Posted May 1st 2009 1:00PM by Tom Barlow (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Domino's Pizza (DPZ)
Domino's (NYSE: DPZ) first quarter earnings report showed that the company is weathering the recession to date better than analysts had expected. Net income was up 245% over fourth quarter 2008, and 168% over same quarter a year ago.
However, this and the earnings per share of 41 cents were inflated by $21.2 million realized from early debt retirement. Without this, EPS would have come in at 20 cents, still above analysts' expectations of 17 cents but down by a penny from the first quarter of 2008.
The company jumped at the chance to retire $43 million of 5.261% fixed-rate notes for $22.3 million of cash on-hand and very cheap money draw from its revolving bank account. Continuing on that course, Domino's has already retired an additional $25 million that will show as $12.9 million to the good in the next quarter's earnings.
Continue reading Domino's earnings report a nice slice
Posted Apr 15th 2009 12:15PM by Tom Barlow (RSS feed)
Filed under: Employees, Domino's Pizza (DPZ)
Corporations spend millions of dollars in advertising to carefully cultivate a brand and image, yet all that money can be for naught when a couple of trashy employees take it upon themselves to post a video on Youtube showing them deliberately sneezing and farting on the food they are about to serve.
Domino's (NYSE:DPZ), the nation's second largest pizza chain with over 8,700 locations in 60 countries, is suffering such an assault at the moment.
The video is narrated by a young lady who takes obvious delight in ridiculing the company and its customers. One has to wonder what goes through the mind of an employee who, despising the company, continues to take the paycheck rather than move on. It's not as though Domino's is the only low-wage job on the market, even in these hard times.
Continue reading Domino's gross-out video a business killer?
Posted Mar 28th 2008 11:45AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: McDonald's (MCD), Alcoa Inc (AA), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Yum Brands (YUM), Burger King Hldgs (BKC), Analyst initiations
MOST NOTEWORTHY: Analog Semiconductors, OrthoVita and First Solar were today's noteworthy initiations:
- Morgan Stanley initiated Analog Semiconductors with an In Line rating. The firm assumed National Semiconductor Corp (NYSE: NSM) with an Overweight rating and $26 target and is the firm's top pick; Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) and Linear Tech (NASDAQ: LLTC) were initiated with Equal Weight ratings and a $32 target and $34 target, respectively.
- Barrington believes OrthoVita (NASDAQ: VITA) is the market share and technological leader of the biomaterials market. The firm assumed shares with an Outperform rating and $4 target.
- Canaccord Adams believes First Solar's (NASDAQ: FSLR) management and business model are among the best of any PV company and that execution has led to strong profitability plus a successful aggressive capacity ramp. Shares were started with a Buy rating and $325 target.
OTHER INITIATIONS:
- Morgan Stanley initiated Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) and Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) with Equal Weight ratings and targets of $40 and $15, and also initiated McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Burger King (NYSE: BKC) with Overweight ratings and targets of $65 and $34.
- Lehman initiated Alcoa (NYSE: AA) with an Overweight rating and $44 target.
Posted Oct 20th 2007 12:40PM by Trey Thoelcke (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO), eBay (EBAY), Pfizer (PFE), Coca-Cola (KO), Intel (INTC), Motorola (MOT), McDonald's (MCD), International Business Machines (IBM), Nokia Corp. (NOK), Citigroup Inc. (C), Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Advanced Micro Dev (AMD), Altria Group (MO), Bank of America (BAC), Boston Scientific (BSX), Hershey Co (HSY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Gannett Co (GCI), Mattel, Inc (MAT), Southwest Airlines (LUV), , , Harley-Davidson (HOG), United Technologies (UTX)
Another earnings season crunch is under way, and here are a some highlights of this past week's earnings coverage here at BloggingStocks:
Continue reading Earnings highlights: Tech stocks strong, financials weak
Posted Oct 19th 2007 4:19PM by Jonathan Berr (RSS feed)
Filed under: Major movement, Earnings reports, Forecasts, Bad news, Google (GOOG), Caterpillar (CAT), Schlumberger Limited (SLB), Hershey Co (HSY), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Black Friday, Harley-Davidson (HOG), Economic data, Commodities, Oil, S and P 500, DJIA, Housing, Federal Reserve

The stock market had its
biggest drop today in a month as investors absorbed a plethora of earnings disappointments, cuts in profit outlooks and pessimistic comments about the economy.
The statistics speak for themselves. The Dow Jones industrial average fell more than 340 points. Bloomberg News notes that, "Ten industry groups in the S&P 500 decreased today, with 458 of the index's members posting declines. Thirteen stocks dropped for every one that gained on the New York Stock Exchange."
Bad news was so plentiful today that it's tough to single out one reason for the market's sell-off.
Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:
CAT) reported
disappointing results and lowered its earnings forecast.
Honeywell Inc. (NYSE:
HON) spooked investors with talk of slowing growth. Shares of
Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE:
SLB) fell after the oil field services company said it drilling projects would be delayed. Even shares of
3M Co. (NYSE:
MMM), which reported better-than-expected results, got sucked i
nto the downward spiral as investors were concerned about a planned price cut for its optical films.
Then there's the continued worry about consumer spending that hurt companies ranging from
Harley-Davidson Inc. (NYSE:
HOG) to
Domino's Pizza Inc. (NYSE:
DPZ) to
Hershey Co. (NYSE
: HSY) this week. Financial shares continue to get pummeled on concerns about the subprime mortgage meltdown.
Wachovia Corp. (NYSE:
WB)
reported ugly earnings earlier today. About the only sector that seems to be holding on is tech, thanks to yet another blowout quarter from
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:
GOOG).
Wall Street isn't just worried about the future, it's nearly petrified waiting for the next shoe to drop from the flow of earnings reports coming over the next few weeks. Pundits, such as David Joy of RIverSource Investments, weren't expecting things to get better anytime soon.``When you have earnings expectations that are negative going into the third-quarter reporting season and you start to get some disappointments on top of that after five years of double-digit earnings growth, this market's going to struggle,'' Joy told
Bloomberg News.Continue reading Stock market plunges as bad news mounts
Posted Oct 16th 2007 2:02PM by Jonathan Berr (RSS feed)
Filed under: Major movement, Yahoo! (YHOO), Intel (INTC), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Middle East, International Business Machines (IBM), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), D.R.Horton (DHI), Wells Fargo (WFC), Commodities, Oil, S and P 500, DJIA, Delta Air Lines (DAL), ValueClick Inc (VCLK)
Continue reading Stock market's Manic Monday leads to Twisted Tuesday
Posted Oct 16th 2007 10:22AM by Brian White (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Domino's Pizza (DPZ)
Domino's Pizza, Inc. (NYSE:
DPZ) saw its
Q3 profit drop by a staggering 55% as reported this morning. Domino's management explained the root causes as weak consumer spending added with cost pressures. Cost pressures? Apparently, either the cost of making pizza has changed big-time in the last three months, or gas prices and commodity food product prices have gone up. I'll take the latter -- you?
For the Q3 period, Domino's net income dropped to $10.99 million or $0.17 per share from $24.5 million or $0.39 per share in the year-ago quarter. Most analysts expecting about $0.23 EPS. The food company's quarterly revenue rose 3.2% to over $337 million as international sales became the star of the quarter. CEO David Brandon suggested that trying to mix increasing prices with declining traffic was a challenge in the quarter. Also mentioned was ... wait for it ... higher food costs. Milk prices (cheese) indeed went up, but at the butt-end of Q3, not during the whole period. Could this be an excuse?
While weak domestic consumer spending hampered sales, international sales did just the opposite, increasing 8.3% for the quarter. Have Domino's done enough in the Q3 period to goose more sales from customers, if that was even possible? I'll say that
Papa John's International (NYSE:
PZZA) advertised like crazy in my area this past quarter -- on television, newspapers and in other areas. I saw next to nothing from Domino's. I wonder if the company is masking "declining sales" with "losing business to the competition?"
Visit AOL Money & Finance for more earnings coveragePosted Oct 10th 2007 2:35PM by Jonathan Berr (RSS feed)
Filed under: Earnings reports, Consumer experience, Google (GOOG), Cisco Systems (CSCO), General Electric (GE), Coca-Cola (KO), Market matters, Citigroup Inc. (C), Tiffany and Co (TIF), Costco Wholesale (COST), Economic data, Presidential elections, Delta Air Lines (DAL)
More than ever, Wall Street cares about you. Not you personally but average folks who don't have multi-billion dollar bonuses, pay obscene rents to live in a refrigerator-box sized apartments or have to write essays to get their children admitted to nursery schools that are more selective than some universities.
Believe it or not, you with your 2.5 kids, house in the suburbs and job with your annoying boss are very much on the minds on Wall Street heading into the third quarter. Your pessimism about the economy perplexes pundits and politicians who continually argue that the economy is strong. A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showed that 35% of Americans rate the economy as excellent or good.
So who's right, Wall Street or Main Street?
So far, it depends on the neighborhood where the consumer lives. Costco Wholesale Corp. (NASDAQ: COST), whose customers tend to be well-heeled, today reported fiscal fourth quarter results that while not great, beat Wall Street's expectations. Meanwhile, Petsmart Inc. (NASDAQ: PETM) shares are tanking after the pet supply retailer cut its third quarter and 2007 profit forecast, citing weak consumer spending. So, consumers are confident enough to buy huge bags of pet food but worried about buying regular sized bags of Alpo.
Continue reading The theme for this earnings season is consumer confidence
Posted Sep 5th 2007 11:22AM by Eric Buscemi (RSS feed)
Filed under: Analyst reports, Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), News Corp'B' (NWS), Analyst initiations
MOST NOTEWORTHY: Lululemon, Domino's Pizza, Kenexa, Omniture and News Corp were today's noteworthy initiations:
- Lululemon (NASDAQ: LULU) was initiated with a Neutral rating at Merrill Lynch. CIBC believes the company is well-positioned to replace its Canadian success in the U.S. market and started shares with a Sector Outperformer rating and $39 target. The stock was started at Wachovia with a Market Perform rating on valuation.
- Citigroup finds Domino's Pizza (NYSE: DPZ) compelling for long-term investors given the company's solid cash flows, above-average margins, and international growth opportunity. The firm initiated shares with a Buy rating and $22 target.
- RBC Capital started shares of Kenexa Corporation (NASDAQ: KNXA) with a Sector Perform rating and $32 target, citing lack of visibility into the company's product roadmap.
- RBC initiated shares of Omniture Inc (NASDAQ: OMTR) with an Outperform rating and $33 target. The firm believes Omniture is well-positioned given cross selling opportunities, best in class products, strong secular trends, and expanding client roster.
- News Corporation (NYSE: NWS) was initiated with a Buy rating and added to Stifel's Select List. The firm believes the FOX TV Network, stations and FOX News can garner an incremental recurring 100% margin retransmission and affiliate fees totaling $1B by 2010, adding that its sum-of-the-parts model for News Corp captures the value of $8B of "hidden" assets, yielding a fair market value of $30-$31.
OTHER INTIATIONS:
- CRT Capital initiated shares of Navistar (NASDAQ: NAVZ) with a Buy rating and $75 target.
- JP Morgan started shares of Dice Holdings (NYSE: DHX) with an Overweight rating.
- Think Equity started shares of Whole Foods Market Inc (NASDAQ: WFMI) with an Accumulate rating and $51 target.
Posted Apr 19th 2007 11:36AM by Kevin Shult (RSS feed)
Filed under: Before the bell, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Bad news, Netflix, Inc. (NFLX), Blockbuster Inc 'A' (BBI), , Domino's Pizza (DPZ), BP p.l.c. ADS (BP)
MOST NOTEWORTHY: Netflix, Inc (NFLX), Blockbuster Inc (BBI), The Mosaic Company (MOS) and Domino's Pizza, Inc (DPZ) were some of today's noteworthy downgrades:
- First Albany cut Netflix Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX) to Neutral from Buy to reflect weak industry subscriber additions.
- Citigroup cut The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) to Sell from Hold on expectations for a sharp DAP price decline and valuation.
- Domino's Pizza Inc (NYSE: DPZ) was downgraded to Peer Perform from Outperform at Bear Stearns, citing valuation.
OTHER DOWNGRADES:
- Merrill Lynch downgrade BP Plc (NYSE: BP) to Neutral from Buy on valuation.
- Pacific Crest downgraded Linear Technology Corp (NASDAQ: LLTC) to Sector Perform from Outperform based on secular headwinds and an increase in DOI to 82 days.
- Piper Jaffray downgraded Compuware Corp (NASDAQ: CPWR) to Market Perform from Outperform following the disappointing Q4 guidance.
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