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Boston Beer Company Inc (NYSE: SAM) shares were moving higher Thursday after the company received an analyst upgrade on the strength of its red-hot hard seltzer, Truly. The Analyst Cowen analyst Vivien Azer upgraded Boston Beer Co. from Market Perform to Outperform and raised the price...

A bearish case for battery and portable lighting product maker company Energizer Holdings Inc (NYSE: ENR) can be made after recent Nielsen data pointed to a concerning outlook, according to JPMorgan. The Analyst Andrea Teixeira downgraded Energizer Holdings from Neutral to Underweight with a...

Hershey Co (NYSE: HSY) reported strong gross and operating margin expansion for the first quarter and raised its full-year margin guidance Thursday.  Margins were driven by higher-than-anticipated benefits from a decline in cocoa and dairy prices, as well as gains from SG&A efficiency...

Digital gamers spent more than $8 billion in February, with Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA) reaping much of the spending on console games. The number was also boosted by a jump in spending on mobile games. New data from Nielsen’s SuperData Research found that game spending growth across all...

After holding its viewership data cards close to its chest, Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) revealed some interesting numbers regarding some of its content. Romantic comedies were at the top of the Netflix best list for 2018, the company said in a December press release. The most-watched and...

While pundits have been sounding the 2-minute warning on big-time televised sports for a few years, the companies that feed our athletic addictions managed to keep the game going a bit longer this past year.  And as we head into a new year, there’s some optimism in the industry that...

Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) is gaining a lot of momentum with its newly launched streaming service, Facebook Watch. A+E Networks' new short-form series "Bae or Bail" reached over 24 million viewers on the platform. Traditional networks are taking a liking to the new platform, and we will likely see...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has unveiled its newest video game console ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo Wednesday in Los Angeles. 'The World's Most Powerful Console' Dubbed “the world’s most powerful console,, the Xbox One X is the latest release from Microsoft, and...

The seventh major video game console from Japan's Nintendo Co., Ltd (ADR) (OTC: NTDOY), the Nintendo Switch, may not have made a mark in the minds of the general or gaming public, at least in the run up to its March 3 launch. Anemic Recognition The results of a survey published in Nielsen's...

Scoot over television; smartphones are vying for the media throne. TV, one of the mainstay entertainment avenues, is slowly on the way to being relegated to the backseat. This is quite a cultural shock for those of us raised around TVs, and religiously tuned into the family tube for entertainment...

Hain Celestial Group Inc (NASDAQ: HAIN) announced Wednesday after the market close that an internal audit committee appointed to probe into concessions with respect to certain distributors in the United States has found no evidence of intentional wrongdoing in connection with Hain Celestial's...

Credit Suisse's Robert Moskow prefers to move to the sidelines on J M Smucker Co (NYSE: SJM), given that the company’s “key commodity inputs have bottomed and no longer provide material opportunities for margin benefits.” Moskow downgraded the rating on the company from...

The digital advertising and marketing movement shows no sign of slowing down. With the transition to creative technology, companies’ M&A activity continues to rise. This week, Chinese investors bought Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) ad partner, Media.net, for $900 million and business...

This is the millennium of Aftermath; It ain't gonna be nothin' after that; So give me one more platinum plaque. The Billboard 200 chart is a ranking of the week’s most popular albums, as measured by a combination of album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming...