Today's stock selection: DF Dean Foods This stock hasn't very strong fundamentals but decline in the stock's price has provided buying opportunity. Management has taken definitive actions to improve shareholder value from the spin-off of TreeHouse Foods in 2005 to a $15 per share special dividend in 2007. Management has focused on the branded products business, reduced SKUs, and integrated strategic acquisitions in the Dairy Group. However, 2007 was challenging due to increased dairy costs. Though costs are expected to be volatile in 2008, the decline in the...
Dean Foods Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a food and beverage company in the United States. It operates in two segments, Dairy Group and WhiteWave Foods. The Dairy Group segment engages in the manufacture, marketing, and distribution of various branded and private label dairy case products, including half-and-half, whipping cream, dairy coffee creamers, and ice cream mix; ice cream and ice cream novelties; yogurt, cottage cheese, sour cream, and dairy-based dips; fruit juice, fruit-flavored drinks, ice tea, and water; and butter, cheese, eggs, and milk shakes. This se
This article is a reprint of my February 25, 2008 RealMoney column
What is wrong with Dean Foods (DF)? After all with everyone from Starbucks (SBUX) to Hershey’s (HSY) getting hurt by rising milk costs, I would expect the “largest processor and distributor of milk and various other dairy products in the United States” to be living in the land of milk and honey.
Yet somehow, Dean has managed to get itself on the wrong side of every dairy-related position (so much for Peter Lynch’s invest in what you know theory.) For example, the company describes the current dairy en
This article is a reprint of my February 25, 2008 RealMoney column
What is wrong with Dean Foods (DF)? After all with everyone from Starbucks (SBUX) to Hershey’s (HSY) getting hurt by rising milk costs, I would expect the “largest processor and distributor of milk and various other dairy products in the United States” to be living in the land of milk and honey.
Yet somehow, Dean has managed to get itself on the wrong side of every dairy-related position (so much for Peter Lynch’s invest in what you know theory.) For example, the company describes the current dairy en
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