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"I think now is a particularly opportune time to buy  the world’s largest fast-food company, YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM) ," says Louis Basenese.

The associate investment director and contributing editor to The Oxford Club observes,  "YUM Brands operates 35,000 restaurants under the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands.:" Here's his review of the firm's outlook, including its expanding role in China.

"For starters, YUM keeps extending its streak of impressive results. For the seventh quarter in a row it beat expectations.

"Earnings per share increased 16% for the quarter and 28% year-to-date. Not t

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"I think now is a particularly opportune time to buy the world's largest fast-food company, YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM) ," says Louis Basenese.

The associate investment director and contributing editor to The Oxford Club observes, "YUM Brands operates 35,000 restaurants under the KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands." Here's his review of the firm's outlook, including its expanding role in China.

"For starters, YUM keeps extending its streak of impressive results. For the seventh quarter in a row it beat expecta

Buffalo Wild Wings (BWLD) just reported a great quarter. EPS of 31 cents on same store sales of 8.3%. The stock is surging and trading higher than the level at which I sold the first half of my position after the company last reported.

The restaurants are back. Yum Brands (YUM) is too cheap to ignore here. I added some to my personal account yesterday on top of my already full sized position for client accounts that I accumulated last week at lower prices.

Yum Brands (YUM) reported its quarterly results after the market closed on Wednesday. The company generated earnings per share of 45 cents on revenues of $2.653 billion and in the process, handily beat analysts’ estimates of 42 cents in EPS and $2.55 billion of revenues. This was quite deceptive, as restaurant level operating margins declined across the board in all regions: China -1.1%; Yum International -1.3%; and, US -2.9%. Increasing commodity costs – food and energy –are eroding the company’s margins.

I fully expected this to occur and pointed it out on Bloomberg Asia TV when YUM repor

My latest column is up at RealMoney.

Jim Cramer says Yum! Brands (YUM) is the best way to play China’s growing appetite for protein. Yum! management has called China its number-one growth strategy, and expects to have 3,000 stores in the country by year-end.

To my mind, the fundamentals look tasty enough to take a bite of, regardless of whether it is the “best” play on China or simply a good one. The company has three other growth prongs as well: aggressive international expansion outside China; improving U.S. brand positions, consistency and returns; and driving industry-leading lon

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Referring to his long-recommended position in YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM), Louis Basenese exclaims, "I've spent 1,308 days tracking its price movements and written 11,239 words expounding its virtues."

Indeed, the associate Investment Director for The Oxford Club states, "If I could only recommend one stock to own for the next decade, hands down YUM! Brands would be the one."

"YUM! Brands, operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is quietly transforming itself into an international juggernaut. Today, roughly h

Referring to his long-recommended position in YUM! Brands (NYSE: YUM), Louis Basenese exclaims, "I've spent 1,308 days tracking its price movements and written 11,239 words expounding its virtues."

Indeed, the associate Investment Director for the Oxford Club states, "If I could only recommend one stock to own for the next decade, hands down YUM! Brands would be the one."

"YUM! Brands, operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, is quietly transforming itself into an international juggernaut.

"Today, roughly half of its operations and profits come from outside our borders. Tomorrow (okay, not t

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McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) announced its same-store sales results for the month of April Thursday, and the data indicate a healthy fast-food business ("healthy fast food" -- isn't that an oxymoron?).

Global comps as a whole increased 5%. Comps for European locations increased 6.3%, and the Asia/Pacific/Middle East/Africa segment saw a 7.8% rise in same-store sales. McDonald's restaurants in the States increased an anemic 2%. The weak domestic sales really need to

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"The Olympics have long been a boon to stock markets of host countries," notes Tony Sagami, a leading global stock advisor with a noted specialty in Asian markets.

In his Asia Stock Alert newsletter, he notes, "I believe the chief beneficiaries of the Olympic Games will be consumer and travel-related stocks. And within these sectors, I've chosen six stocks poised to bring home Olympic gold from Beijing."

"We saw a 19% gain in the Spanish stock market in the 12 months before the 1

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