Search results for Coca-Cola
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Posted
Sep 04 2009, 02:24 PM
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John Reese
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The investing world is often littered with new theories and new ideas about how best to make money. But over the years, I've found that the best way to produce solid, market-beating returns is to take advantage of the wisdom history's best investors have been kind enough to share. That's why I created my Guru Strategy computer models, and that's why each week I recap what some of the gurus I follow are saying about the market and economy.
This week the theme seemed to be that, while the economic future remains cloudy, it's a good environment for stock-pickers. That's what Mario Gabelli, a Benjamin Graham disciple with an excellent long-term track record, told Bloomberg. While ETFs or sector plays have become all the rage lately, Gabelli says he's focusing on individual stocks that have strong potential for the next three or four years. He gave his thoughts on potential plays in the financial, airline, newspaper, and telecom industries, and also said the food industry is ripe for a round of mergers.
Another top manager, Donald Yacktman, whose two funds are up about 9% per year over the past decade while the S&P 500 has been in the red, says he's focusing on high-quality stocks. Lower-quality firms have made big gains in the rebound, but the best buys now are plays like Coca-Cola (KO), Pepsi (PEP), and Procter & Gamble (PG), Yacktman, a bottom-up stock-picker, told Bloomberg. He says financials are still dangerous, but that he's found a great play in AmeriCredit (ACF).
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Aug 27 2009, 07:44 AM
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John Reese
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Berkshire Hathaway recently filed its latest holdings statement with the SEC, and one major position Warren Buffett is keeping steady is consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble (PG). Berkshire owned close to 100 million shares of P&G at the end of the second quarter, according to the filing, making it one of Buffett's biggest positions. In fact, the only companies that Berkshire (BRK.B) has greater stock stakes in, dollar-wise, are well-known Buffett favorites Coca-Cola (KO), Wells Fargo (WFC), and Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNI).
P&G certainly has some of the qualities Buffett has typically looked for in his investments. For example, both the company and many of its products, including Pampers, Tide, Crest, and Bounty, have strong, recognizable brand names that give P&G an advantage over some peers.
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Jul 21 2009, 05:46 AM
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Minyanville
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One to Watch: Starbucks (SBUX) will be hoping for fat profits at the close, even as it unloads complementary calories on customers in a pastry promotion during the day. The coffee king reports quarterly earnings and could use a jolt of good news. Growth has stalled as frugalistas forsake fancy frappuccinos for Folger's in fits of penny pinching pique. Add in costly cannibalization due to chronic overexpansion and an aggressive ad campaign by upstart McDonald’s (MCD) (”four bucks is dumb”) and many see the stock as a has "bean." Shutting subpar stores and regaining its former focus could see the company revive, but becoming buzz-worthy again is an altogether tougher task.
What Just Happened: Hillary Clinton continued her passage to India, currying favor with the country’s rapidly multiplying millionaires. Texas Instruments (TXN) entered middle age as it posted a 56% profit plunge 50 years after introducing the microchip. Stocks rose once more on the back of agreeable comments from Street strategy gurus and another uptick in Leading Economic Indicators. Though the LEI may l-i-e, judging by an article in today’s New York Times about how shuttered stores adorn even Madison Avenue in these tough times.
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Jul 14 2009, 12:22 PM
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Minyanville
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Click here to view the 10 most horrific commercial jingles of all time!
Music is usually hailed as a uniting force in a divided world. But in the late 1930s, one song may have inadvertently started a war. While Pepsi’s (PEP) “Pepsi Cola Hits the Spot” didn’t play much of a role in World War II, it did eventually start a serious branding rivalry by inspiring a series of equally catchy commercial jingles from rival Coca-Cola (KO), most notably “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing.”
The 2 beverages have since spent decades unleashing some of history’s most addictive jingles -- one of which was responsible for literally setting Michael Jackson's hair on fire.
The world of jingles, be they original compositions or older songs, has since exploded. The money has gotten much bigger, too. When Microsoft (MSFT) used songs from the Rolling Stones and Madonna to promote its new Windows operating systems, both artists were reportedly paid $12 million apiece for their songs.
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Jul 02 2009, 06:08 AM
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Minyanville
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 At a time when consumer confidence remains weak, can fast food remain profitable?
Things were starting to look sunny, but then U.S. consumer confidence fell in June, snapping a two-month rally of gains. The Consumer Attitudes Index weighed in at 49.3 -- a decline from the 54.8 it was at in May. Additionally, the Present Situation Index slid to 24.8 from 29.7.
These declines were caused by a weak job market -- note continued layoffs in the private sector -- a less favorable assessment of business conditions, and a weak real estate sector. In addition, higher interest rates are deterring homeowners from refinancing mortgage -- which means no extra cash to spend. Lastly, studies have indicated that US consumers, still anxious about the economy, are saving more and spending less.
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Jun 22 2009, 04:04 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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Who needs Advil when it is more expensive than aspirin and probably does no better at reducing pain? Who needs Starbucks (SBUX) when Maxwell House has just as much caffeine?
A new survey of purchasing data from 23,000 stores conducted by the Pointer Media Network shows that many shoppers are simply walking away from their favorite brands because they can’t afford them due to high prices during a recession.
According to Reuters, from 2007 to 2008, of shoppers surveyed “33 percent completely defected to another brand.”
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Apr 23 2009, 03:46 AM
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Douglas McIntyre
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As the executives at Apple (AAPL) were passing around the Dom Perignon, their counterparts at other companies that design and manufacture smartphones were putting all sharp objects out of reach. In a recession, there is only so much air in any room. Smartphone sales are suffering like all consumer electronics. If the iPhone is doing extraordinarily well, others are doing badly.
What almost no one saw coming in Apple’s results for the March quarter was that the company would sell nearly 3.8 million iPhones. Most educated guesses were around 3.1 million to 3.3 million. In a world where securities analysts send spies to Apple stores and bribe hardware component suppliers for data on iPhone parts shipments, experts are not supposed to be off that much. It makes them look bad, but it makes Apple look good, both for its ability to keep things secret and for building a handset that is expensive, making the iPhone an aspirational product for many people who buy it. Some consumers walking into AT&T (T) stores don’t have $299 for the iPhone and the money for the exorbitant calling plan that goes with it. They go anyway, like junkies to a dealer.
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Apr 21 2009, 07:47 AM
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Jim Jubak writes two columns a week for MSN Money, and tracks four portfolios constructed for different types of investors. To see more on Jim's picks and their performance, click here.
You have to go back to 2004 to find shares of PepsiCo (PEP) trading as low as the $50 range. Even though 2008 earnings were below those for 2006 and 2007, earnings have grown 20% since then, so with an economic turnaround looming in 2010, these shares look very, very reasonably priced now. (It doesn't hurt that the shares pay a 3.3% dividend while investors wait for the economy.)
PepsiCo's management isn't waiting passively for the turnaround, however. On April 20, the company launched a bid for the part of its two biggest North American bottlers, Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG) and PepsiAmericas (PAS), that it doesn't already own.
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Posted
Mar 18 2009, 01:58 PM
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Anthony Mirhaydari
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In a spat of protectionism, China won't allow Coca-Cola (KO) to buy its largest domestic juice maker. The $2.4 billion acquisition of the China Huiyuan Juice Company would have been the largest-ever foreign takeover of a Chinese company.
On Wednesday, the Commerce Ministry said the deal violated new antitrust laws and would "have an adverse effect on competition" resulting in higher prices and less variety. In reality, Coke would've controlled only 17% of the overall soft drinks sector.
The Chinese people were strongly united against the Coke takeover of Huiyuan. A poll by the Chinese web portal Sina.com showed 80% of participants opposed the deal. Last week, a posting on the site noted that "We should protect our national industry. Otherwise all the clothing, food, accommodation and transportation of Chinese citizens will be controlled by foreigners." But the move will cut both ways, since it jeopardizes China's purchase of significant stakes in a number of Australian mining companies.
Investors are now wondering what Coke's next steps will be given that China is its fourth-largest market behind the U.S., Mexico, and Brazil.
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Posted
Mar 18 2009, 03:11 AM
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Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans
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This post comes from partner site The Big Money. IBM (IBM) is in early stage talks to buy Sun Microsystems (JAVA), the Wall Street Journal reports, in a deal that would "bolster IBM's heft on the Internet, in software and in finance and telecommunications markets." Talks could yet fall through, the Journal says, but there is also a chance the negotiations could wrap up as early as this week. IBM is likely to pay at least $6.5 billion in cash, the newspaper adds, a premium of more than 100% over Sun's closing price Tuesday. Sun's share price rocketed more than 80% in morning trading Wednesday on the news, while IBM shares fell slightly.
Big Blue's interest in Sun comes down to control of a $100 billion market, the Journal writes, and it's all focused on the data center -- the large computer rooms that keep businesses and the Internet running.
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