Advent Adds Thomas Ryan
Advent International has added Thomas Ryan, the former chairman and chief executive of CVS Caremark Corp., as a member of the firm’s operating partner program. Ryan will help Advent identify investment opportunities and work with the firm’s retail and healthcare companies.
Yum! Brands’ CEO Discusses Q2 2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Yum! Brands (YUM)
Q2 2011 Earnings Call
July 14, 2011 9:15 am ET
Executives
Tim Jerzyk - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer
David Novak - Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Executive/Finance Committee
Richard Carucci - Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Keith Siegner - Crédit Suisse AG
Jeffrey Omohundro -...
Monday links: natural monopolies
Quote of the day Eddy Elfenbein, “The biggest threat to natural monopolies comes, not from a competitor, but from innovation.” (Crossing Wall Street) Chart of the day Keep an eye on Aussie/Yen for a clue to the risk on/risk off trade. (All Star Charts) Markets How it is that good US news leads to a...
Top clicks this week on Abnormal Returns
Thanks for checking in with us this weekend. Here are the items our readers clicked most frequently on Abnormal Returns for the week ended Saturday, April 30th, 2011. The description is as it reads in the relevant linkfest. Jeremy Grantham’s new quarterly letter is out and it is a natural resource downer. (FT Alphaville) Jason...
Wednesday links: disregarding facts
Quote of the day Jonah Lehrer, “It doesn’t matter if we’re holding forth on birth certificates or tax policy – we can’t help but discount and disregard facts that contract what we’d like to believe.” (The Frontal Cortex) Chart of the day Fears of an extended NFL lockout have yet to hit the stock price...
Wednesday screencast: little sheep, big profits
There is an ongoing debate about just how much international exposure you get when you buy big multinational companies like those represented in the S&P 500. These companies are benefiting from overseas growth, but do the stocks trade more like their domestic markets or overseas markets? What investors really want is to have their cake...
And the beef goes on (at Yum)…
You probably remember the big dust-up a few months ago over what exactly was in Taco Bell’s beef. A class action lawsuit was filed in California federal court in late January, 2011 by Alabama-based law firm Beasley, Allen against Taco Bell, a subsidiary owned by Yum Brands (YUM). Beasley Allen’s petition claimed that Taco Bell’s products that...
Yum! Brands’ CEO Discusses Q1 2011 Results – Earnings Call Transcript
Yum! Brands (YUM)
Q1 2011 Earnings Call
April 21, 2011 9:15 am ET
Executives
Tim Jerzyk - Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Treasurer
David Novak - Executive Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of Executive/Finance Committee
Richard Carucci - Chief Financial Officer
Analysts
Keith Siegner - Crédit Suisse AG
Jeffrey Omohundro -...
Thursday links: that austerity thing
Quote of the day
Daniel Gross, “So how is that austerity thing working for the Brits? Not so great.” (Yahoo! Finance)
Chart of the day
What the BPP Index is saying about inflation trends. (The Reformed Broker)
Markets
A look at the VIX futures curve. (SurlyTrader)
Americans once again heart equity mutual funds. (Floyd Norris)
The Treasury is not going to...
Futures Mixed Ahead of Earnings, Economic Data, Retail Sales
Filed under: Before the Bell, International Markets, Wal-Mart (WMT), Market Matters, New York Times'A' (NYT), CIGNA Corp (CI), Yum Brands (YUM), Merck and Co (MRK), Commodities, Oil, Currency, Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A)U.S. stock futures are mixed this ...
Two Quarterly Reports: Visa and Yum! Brands
Filed under: Earnings Reports, Yum Brands (YUM), Visa Inc. (V)Let's take a quick look at two companies that posted quarterly reports. One makes its money from plastic (the kind you use to buy things), the other serves pizza, poultry, and tacos to the m...
