Packaged Foods & Meats

Below are the top farm products stocks on the NYSE and the NASDAQ in terms of dividend yield. Cal-Maine Foods Inc (NASDAQ: CALM) has a dividend yield of 3.00%. CALM's shares closed at $27.67 on Friday. Calavo Growers Inc (NASDAQ: CVGW) has a dividend yield of 2.70%. CVGW's shares closed at $21.00...

Feihe International Inc (NYSE: ADY) is expected to report its Q4 EPS at $0.07 on revenue of $54.40 million. Jaguar Mining Inc (NYSE: JAG) is estimated to post a Q4 loss at $0.03 per share on revenue of $66.00 million. PDI Inc (NASDAQ: PDII) is projected to report its Q4 EPS at $0.02 on revenue of...

We are working through a series of articles to help improve returns for retirement investors. Aging boomers highlight the major retirement crisis as they come to the end of their working careers. They don't have enough money. There is no money to bail out retirement – it's already been spent on...

Near-nuclear disasters, ceasefires, several more days of triple-digit action on the Dow Jones Industrial Average and increased volatility on the S&P 500 have made this a week to remember. Or perhaps forget depending on what side of the fence you're on. Thank goodness it's Friday, but before we...

Shares of The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) are higher on the session by 1.53%, currently trading at $53.83. The stock has been moving largely higher over the past three months and is currently trading above the 50-day and 200-day moving averages. Options traders are buying calls on the name today...

General Mills (NYSE: GIS) announced this morning that it is in exclusive negotiations to buy a majority stake in French yogurt company Yoplait. It was first reported yesterday that General Mills was likely to emerge as the winning bidder for the 51% stake in the company, buying the stake from...

Deutsche Bank has issued a report reiterating the Buy Rating for Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE). According to the report, "Our opinion remains BUY seeing risk / reward skewed positively between both current valuation vs. future M&A optionality. Sara Lee is no longer the typical packaged food stock, as...

Zhongpin Inc. (NASDAQ: HOGS), a meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it has priced a follow-on underwritten registered public offering of 5,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $14.10 per share. The total gross proceeds of the Offering to...

Zhongpin Inc. (NASDAQ: HOGS), a meat and food processing company in the People's Republic of China, today announced that it has priced a follow-on underwritten registered public offering of 5,000,000 shares of common stock at a price of $14.10 per share. The total gross proceeds of the Offering to...

Analysts at ING Group upgrade Unilever plc (NYSE: UL) from “hold” to “buy.” UL shares gained 1.01% to close at $28.94 yesterday. More Analyst Ratings here

News has been buzzing in the financial press recently about the possible takeover of Peet's Coffee (PEET) by Starbucks (SBUX). This is on the heels of the news about the partnership of Starbucks with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). Some investors consider McDonald's Corporation (MCD) to be a...

According to the Wall Street Journal, General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is closed to buying a majority stake in yogurt maker Yoplait for $2.22 billion. The deal has drawn political interest, and a deal with General Mills would be easier to get done. The French government has deemed yogurt a strategic...

General Mills (NYSE: GIS), the second-largest U.S. food company by market value, is reportedly close to acquiring 50% of Yoplait Yogurt from private equity PAI Partners for $2.25 billion. The news was originally reported by the French daily Le Figaro and then Bloomberg News, which cited sources...

The events of recent days reveal the connected nature of the world in which we live. Twenty years ago, Japan was part of the mysterious far east and now we share their disaster minute by minute and are moved by their courage and the tragedy.  We also observe how startling events of nature, along...

Coffee Holding Co., Inc. (Nasdaq: JVA) today announced its operating results for the three months ended January 31, 2011. In this release, the Company: Reports net sales of $25,641,093 for the three months ended January 31, 2011 and $21,359,151 for the three months ended January 31, 2010;Reports...