These top foodmakers will rebound

The shares of these leading foodmakers are all down in the past three months, mainly because investors fear that new weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, which cause people to eat less, will hurt their sales. However, the high cost of these drugs and their serious side… Read More

We prefer food sellers over food producers

Under pressure from the federal government, Canada’s leading grocery chains have agreed to a series of measures to lower prices for consumers. Those include discounts, price-matching campaigns, and price freezes. The government is also looking at ways to get food producers to lower their prices.
We… Read More

This growth stock can still go higher

Starbucks’ Howard Schultz recently stepped down as CEO and as a director but will continue as Chairman Emeritus.
We expect his successor, Laxman Narasimhan, the former CEO of U.K.-based consumer-products company Reckitt Benckiser, will continue to implement the company’s latest growth plan. That includes adding more… Read More

Higher prices offset its higher costs

MAPLE LEAF FOODS INC. $30 is still a hold. The company (Toronto symbol MFI; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 122.1 million; Market cap: $3.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 2.8%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.mapleleaffoods.com) sells fresh and prepared meats under the Maple Leaf and Schneider… Read More