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ETC: Oscar Mayer Wienermobile rally leaves us bunderstruck

By Jonathon Ramsey

Oscar Mayer Wieners

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In the running for the greatest event tag line of 2013 is this: “Six wieners. One winner.” Or how about just Wienermobile Run, which is what Oscar Mayer is putting on with six Wienermobiles crossing the country in search of points and glory.

The social media-driven challenge has the teams – Born to Bun, Speedy Wiener, Autobuhn, Hell on Buns, Drift Dog and Bunderstruck – earn points for fulfilling challenges submitted by you and by Oscar Mayer and by getting their photos plastered all over the gossip-verse. The big dog with the most points at the end, wins.

You can join teams and submit photos and, naturally, win things. It just kicked off on July 9 with all the Wienermobiles in Edgecliff, New Jersey and Born to Bun is already way out in the lead, but there’s still time to take sides with the figure out which Hotdogger in a 27-foot-long is your favorite flavor…

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Will Kraft Foods Help You Retire Rich?

By Dan Caplinger, The Motley Fool

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Now more than ever, a comfortable retirement depends on secure, stable investments. Unfortunately, the right stocks for retirement won’t just fall into your lap. As part of an ongoing series, I’m looking today at 10 measures to show whether Kraft Foods makes a great retirement-oriented stock.

Kraft Foods is now a greatly diminished part of its former self, holding the slower-growing North American grocery business after Mondelez took the global snack-food segment in its spinoff. For Kraft, though, competitive pressures still persist as the company refocuses on its well-known grocery brands, including Jell-O, Oscar Mayer, Cool Whip, and its namesake Kraft products. Will the slimmed-down Kraft fare better in the industry? Let’s revisit how Kraft Foods does on our 10-point scale.

The right stocks for retirees
With decades to go before you need to tap your investments, you can take greater risks, weighing the chance of big losses against the potential for mind-blowing returns. But as retirement approaches, you no longer have the luxury of waiting out a downturn.

Sure, you still want good returns, but you also need to manage your risk and protect yourself against bear markets, which can maul your finances at the worst possible time. The right stocks combine both of these elements in a single investment.

When scrutinizing a stock, retirees should look for:

  • Size. Most retirees would rather not take a flyer on unproven businesses. Bigger companies may lack their smaller counterparts’ growth potential, but they do offer greater security.
  • Consistency. While many investors look for fast-growing companies, conservative investors want to see steady, consistent gains in revenue, free cash flow, and other key metrics. Slow growth won’t make headlines, but it will help prevent the kind of ugly surprises that suddenly torpedo a stock‘s share price.
  • Stock stability. Conservative retirement investors prefer investments that move less dramatically than typical stocks, and they particularly want to avoid big losses. These investments will give up some gains during bull markets, but they won’t fall as far or as fast during bear markets. Beta measures volatility, but we also want a track record of solid performance as well.
  • Valuation. No one can afford to pay too much for a stock, even if its prospects are good. Using normalized earnings multiples helps smooth out one-time effects, giving you a longer-term context.
  • Dividends. Most of all, retirees look for stocks that can provide income through dividends. Retirees want healthy payouts now and consistent dividend growth over time — as long as it doesn’t jeopardize the company’s financial health.

With those factors in mind, let’s take a closer look at Kraft Foods.

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Factor

What We Want to See

Actual

Pass or Fail?

Size

Market cap > $10 billion

$30.4 billion

Pass

Consistency

Revenue growth > 0% in at least four of five past years

3 years*

Fail

 

Free cash flow growth > 0% in at least four of past five years

Here's What a New Berkshire Director's 2,556%-Gainer Fund Has Been Buying

By Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool

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Every quarter, many money managers have to disclose what they’ve bought and sold, via “13F” filings. Their latest moves can shine a bright light on smart stock picks.

Today let’s look at Eagle Capital Management, founded in 1988 by Ravenel Boykin Curry III. It has as a general partner Meryl Witmer, who was recently tapped to be a new director at Warren Buffett‘s company, Berkshire Hathaway . Value-oriented Eagle prides itself on its focused portfolio of only a few dozen stocks, as well as its consistency, and long time horizon. Since inception, it has gained 2,556%, versus 769% for the S&P 500.

The company’s reportable stock portfolio totaled $14.1 billion  in value as of Dec. 31.

Interesting developments
So what does Eagle Capital‘s latest quarterly 13F filing tell us? Here are a few interesting details,

The biggest new holdings are Kraft Foods Group and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF . Kraft was spun off last year from the Kraft Foods mothership, which then took on the moniker of Mondelez International . Kraft Foods now specializes in domestic groceries, including brands such as JELL-O, Oscar Mayer, and Planters, while Mondelez focuses on global snacks and beverages, including brands such as Oreo, Trident, Tang, and Cadbury. Kraft recently disappointed investors, with an earnings update featuring earnings down sharply as a result of pension and restructuring charges, among other things. Kraft faces many competitive threats, such as from private labels. On the plus side, it does offer a 4.1% dividend yield.

Among holdings in which Eagle Capital increased its stake was Mondelez, which recently posted slightly disappointing earnings. It has been hurt by weakness in Europe, but bulls have high hopes for operations in developing markets, where growth is often more rapid. It also boasts assets such as boffo brands with pricing power, though it’s also carrying a lot of debt.

Eagle Capital reduced its stake in lots of companies, including U.K.-based Vodafone . Bulls had already been excited about its Smart II low-cost, mass-market smartphone, and its entry into the promising mobile-payments market, as well as a new deal to provide mobile service in 30 nations. Adding to that are reports that Verizon might be interested in ending its wireless-based partnership with the company or perhaps merging with it. Vodafone is huge, with more than 400 million customers, and its stock recently yielded 3.8%.

Finally, Eagle Capital‘s biggest closed positions included Willis Group Holdings and Cimarex Energy . Other closed positions of interest include Motorola Solutions and Waste Management . Fortune magazine named Motorola Solutions as one of America’s Most Admired Companies, and it is earning some investors’ admiration, too, shrinking its debt and growing its free cash flow. It’s trading near a 52-week high and yields about 1.6%. It operates in the field of public safety equipment, and its government contracts business grew 12%  in 2012.

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Kraft Declares Its First Dividend of 2013

By Eric Volkman, The Motley Fool

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Kraft Foods Group has declared its inaugural quarterly dividend for 2013. The company will pay $0.50 per share of common stock on April 12 to shareholders of record as of March 29. This amount matches the company’s previous dividend, which was handed out last December.

These are the only two dividends Kraft has paid since it split itself into two last October. Its spinoff firm, Mondelez concentrates generally on snack offerings and trades independently. Kraft’s assets are, for the most part, popular American grocery items such as Oscar Mayer deli meats and Velveeta processed cheese.

The dividend annualizes to an even $2.00 per share. That yields 4.1% at Kraft’s current stock price of $49.19.

The article Kraft Declares Its First Dividend of 2013 originally appeared on Fool.com.

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How Kraft Got Its Innovation Groove Back

By Jenna Goudreau, Forbes Staff

Kraft Foods Group has spent the last three years getting its innovation groove back, company leaders said today at the annual Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY) Conference in Boca Raton, Fla. The $18-billion-in-revenues food products company with iconic brands like Maxwell House, Oscar Mayer and JELL-O became an independent company last October after a corporate split of legacy Kraft’s North American grocery business and its global snacking business, which is now called Mondelez International. …read more
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