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 stock s price has provided a buying
opportunity, since any relief from high dairy costs will
dramatically accelerate earnings growth.
http://www.zacks.com/newsroom/commentary/index_pdf.php?id=800...
| Profitability |
| Profit Margin (ttm): | 0.80% |
| Operating Margin (ttm): | 4.59% |
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| Management Effectiveness | | Return on Assets (ttm): | 5.06% | | Return on Equity (ttm): | 8.41% | |
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| Income Statement | | Revenue (ttm): | 12.27B | | Revenue Per Share (ttm): | 92.556 | | Qtrly Revenue Growth (yoy): | 17.00% | | Gross Profit (ttm): | 2.74B | | EBITDA (ttm): | 797.43M | | Net Income Avl to Common (ttm): | 98.03M | | Diluted EPS (ttm): | 0.71 | | Qtrly Earnings Growth (yoy): | -51.80% | |
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| Balance Sheet |
| Total Cash (mrq): | 40.98M |
| Total Cash Per Share (mrq): | 0.27 |
| Total Debt (mrq): | 4.81B |
| Total Debt/Equity (mrq): | 11.025 |
| Current Ratio (mrq): | 1.515 |
| Book Value Per Share (mrq): | 2.879 |
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$18.81 (07/07/08)
