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Hansen Natural (HANS) is giving back the last month’s gains today after reporting higher than expected sales and lower than expected margins. Both were explained by customers stocking up ahead of a price increase. Count on the same thing happening to Hershey’s (HSY) when they report a March quarter enhanced by customer stock-ups and an early Easter.
While it’s true that the sales were boosted by robbing sales from next quarter, that is a short term issue. I said last month that “Hansen should be able to maintain its current free cash flow yield as long as the company keeps growing
When Hansen Natural (hans) reported it's sketchy "preliminary" fourth quarter results on February 12, it only gave sales and other metrics so analysts could back into an earnings number. The company blamed the limited results on an options probe. Analysts had been expecting 27 cents per share, and based on reports after the release, that's pretty much what analysts calculated the company did.
Now hear this: Based on a 10-K filed late today, it appears the analysts missed the mark -- and not by a small amount. As it turns out, fourth quarter earnings per share were just 23 cents
Hansen Natural Corporation (Public, NASDAQ:HANS), reports earnings this Thursday, November 6th.
The stock recently hit a double bottom - a major reversal pattern that forms after an extended downtrend. As its name implies, the pattern is made up of two consecutive troughs that are roughly equal, with a reasonable peak in-between.
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Since trading close to $25 per share in early 2007, shares of the former Hansen Natural (NASDAQ: HANS) heir-apparent Jones Soda (NASDAQ: JSDA) have tanked. They closed on Friday at a stunning 75 cents per share, down more than 27% on the day.
On October 6th, the company reduced its workforce by 38% to 68 employees, adding that termination and severance expenses were not expected to be material. CEO Stephen Jones said that "Given the financial crisis we're in, you have to preserve cash. Cutting back people is a horrible thing to go through,
Since trading close to $25 per share in early 2007, shares of the former Hansen Natural (NASDAQ: HANS) heir-apparent Jones Soda (NASDAQ: JSDA) have tanked. They closed on Friday at a stunning 75 cents per share, down more than 27% on the day.
On October 6th, the company reduced its workforce by 38% to 68 employees, adding that termination and severance expenses were not expected to be material. CEO Stephen Jones said that "Given the financial crisis we're in, you have to preserve cash. Cutting back people is a horrible thing to go through,
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Since trading close to $25 per share in early 2007, shares of the former 
