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McDonald's Supplier Forced To Suspend Meat Production By Shanghai FDA
Monday, July 21, 2014 - 7:47am | 1107Read More...On Sunday night, Shanghai Husi Foods suspended production meat supplied McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM) KFC and Pizza Hut chains. The Shanghai Food and Drug Administration issued a suspension of operations for Shanghai Husi Foods after the agency's...
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Yum Brands Q2 2014 Earnings Call Highlights
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 1:55pm | 590Read More...Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM) released its Q2 2014 earnings call consisting of outstanding growth in China division and solid growth in Taco bell Division. Before the call, Yum reported EPS for Q2 of $0.73 compared to analyst expectations of $0.72. Revenues for the quarter came out to 3.2 billion, coming...
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Yum! Brands Down On Q2 Report, Despite Strong International Growth
Wednesday, July 16, 2014 - 5:00pm | 226Read More...Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) shares are trending lower Wednesday following the food giant’s second-quarter results. The company reported sales of $3.2 billion for the quarter, slightly missing the $3.23 billion estimate. Year over year this is a 10.3 percent improvement. Sales growth was...
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Yum! Brands Earnings Preview: A Delicious Treat Or Indigestion?
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 - 1:39pm | 873Read More...Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) will report its first quarter results on Tuesday after the closing bell. Analysts are expecting the fast-food chain operator to earn $0.85 per share on revenue of $2.80 billion. The last time Yum! Brands reported its earnings was on February 3 when the company earned $0.70...
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Yum! Brands vs. Wendy's - Who Would You Rather Invest In?
Friday, February 28, 2014 - 12:51pm | 582Read More...The restaurant business is one of the most difficult to successfully operate. Countless headaches afflict it, including location, supply chains, public attitudes and tastes, and governmental regulations. The franchise restaurant concept alleviates most of this pain, and has exploded in popularity...
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Who Would You Rather... Domino's vs. Papa John's
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 1:42pm | 613Read More...Pizza is a very popular commodity in the United States both for consumers ,as well as investors. The pizza industry generates about $40 billion annually, with about five billion pizzas being sold around the world on a yearly basis -- 3 billion sold in the U.S. alone. Publicly traded pizza companies...
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Taxpayers Foot $1.2 Billion Public Assistance Bill for McDonald's Employees
Thursday, October 17, 2013 - 6:45am | 675Read More...Each year, U.S. taxpayers pay out $1.2 billion in public assistance to workers at McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), according to a study released Tuesday by the National Employment Law Project. The NELP study used data from another one conducted by economists at the University of California-Berkeley and...
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Yum! Continues Climb on Better-Than-Expected Sales in China
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 12:07pm | 549Read More...On Monday, Benzinga reported Yum!'s (NYSE: YUM) after-hours spike of over seven percent. The spike was due to word of better-than-expected February sales in China. For the first quarter, same-store sales were down 20 percent. This was largely impacted by a steep decline in KFC sales, as the brand...
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McDonald's, Chipotle Ramp Up the Pace
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 8:54am | 471Read More...Standing in a long line at a fast food restaurant seems a bit daunting and ironic, but according to The Wall Street Journal, restaurant chains are about to kick their speediness into high gear in a number of different ways. From burgers to lattes, chains like McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Starbucks (...
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Yum! Brands to Leave a Bitter Taste Overseas
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - 8:58am | 387Read More...In a move that surprised many, Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) did not report second quarter earnings yesterday as expected. The Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut restaurant company is likely to dish out decent results in the U.S. on the upcoming July 18th call, while overseas numbers are anticipated to remain...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of October 3
Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 10:00am | 977Read More...Though the calendar page has turned, things will be fairly quiet again this week on the earnings front. The new earnings season does not kick off until Alcoa (NYSE: AA) posts its third-quarter results on October 10, followed shortly thereafter by PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) and JPMorgan (NYSE: JPM). This...
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Yum! Brands Earnings Preview
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 8:18am | 614Read More...Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) will be reporting its second-quarter 2011 results Wednesday, July 13, after the markets close. Investors will be watching to see if analysts are correct that growth in China and emerging markets will offset recent struggles at the company's Taco Bell unit. Analysts are...
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Eight Fast-Food Stocks Trading Near 52-Week Highs
Friday, July 8, 2011 - 12:32pm | 1045Read More...No doubt times are tough for fast-food restaurants as they face higher commodity and production costs. Recently, privately held Sbarro filed for bankruptcy and Goldman Sachs downgraded the sector. Some companies have been able to offset growing costs with strategic price increases, and some, like...
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Seven Fast Food Stocks Near 52-Week Highs
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 5:22pm | 759Read More...By and large, fast food restaurants continue to perform well as cost-conscious consumers still try to stretch a buck as they eat out. Though these companies also face higher commodity and production costs, some have been able to offset these costs with strategic price increases. Here are seven...
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Yum! Brands Earnings: Profit Tops Projection in Q3
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 10:13am | 160Read More...Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) issued its fiscal Q3 report Tuesday after the bell. The shares didn't do much during the extended-hours session; they were down roughly 0.4% to $46.63. Not an exciting move, and I have to say, I can understand the lackluster initial reaction. The company, which owns KFC,...
