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Shares of Blue Apron Holdings Inc (NASDAQ: APRN) soared more than 15 percent on Monday after a handful of Wall Street analysts initiated coverage of the food delivery kit with bullish ratings. The slew of initiation notes comes at a time when the standard quiet period has come to an end. But...

For fast-food restaurant operators, the period between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. is referred to as the "fast-food dead zone" as it is smack in between the lunch and dinner hours. In McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD)'s case, a whopping 95 percent of customers show up outside of these...

Investors made it clear they weren't satisfied with McCormick & Company, Incorporated (NYSE: MKC)'s $4.2 billion acquisition of Reckitt Benckiser's food business which includes Frank's RedHot sauce and French's mustard -- and for good reason. Shares of McCormick lost more...

Blue Apron Holdings Inc (NYSE: APRN) IPO in late June couldn't have come at a worse time. The company sells to consumers a food delivery kit, but it's far from alone in the space and faces competition from several other startups. An even bigger threat is the possibility of Amazon.com, Inc...

Shares of PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) were trading lower by around 0.50 percent early Tuesday morning even though the company reported a top- and bottom-line beats in its earnings report. PepsiCo earned $1.50 per share in the second quarter on revenue of $15.71 billion while analysts were expecting...

Investors have been operating under the assumption that Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s acquisition of organic and natural grocery chain Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM) will impact the entire grocery sector over the long term. But that isn't the only scenario, as traditional grocery stores...

Blue Apron Holdings Inc (NYSE: APRN) opened for trading June 30 at $10 per share, quickly rose to $11.00 and ended its first trading session where it started -- at the $10 level. Fast forward just one week and the stock is sitting near the $8 level. Expectations were high heading into the food kit...

Costco Wholesale Corporation (NASDAQ: COST) reported on Wednesday its monthly sales and performance metrics for June, which were impressive but not enough to turn some analysts incrementally bullish. Wells Fargo's Zachary Fadem maintains a Market Perform rating on Costco's stock with an unchanged $...

Analysts at Loop Capital Markets made use of a "prisoners' dilemma model" to gain a better understanding of what food-related stocks are at most risk from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s pending acquisition of Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM). Amazon's acquisition of a grocery store chain...

Analysts at Deutsche Bank hosted a panel of four experts to dissect Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)'s proposed acquisition of Whole Foods Market, Inc. (NASDAQ: WFM). The analyst's main takeaway from the discussion is that Amazon will become a "disruptive player" in groceries over the next five...