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Soda, Coffee, and Cava Won the First Half. Snacks and Pizza Struggled - Barron’s

Soda, Coffee, and Cava Won the First Half. Snacks and Pizza Struggled - Barron’s By Evie Liu https://www.barrons.com/articles/soda-coffee-snacks-stocks-078639cd July 02, 2026 5:52 pm EDT Food, beverage and restaurant stocks didn’t move together in the first half of 2026. Inflation has …

What’s the deal with Coca Cola Consolidated (COKE)?

I had AI frame this post because I found it difficult to write my question myself and I thought this would be easier to read: I’ve been digging into COKE (Coca-Cola Consolidated, not KO) and I’m trying to understand whether …

Scandi Standard - a good company, but you're paying for it

Ok, so brief summary, since that's a thing people seem to want in a longer post: [SCST.ST](http://SCST.ST) looks to me like a solid business, but it's not cheap. Not terrible for me, as one of my goals is to diversify, …

Is FIZZ (National Beverages) worth buying for the dividends this week?

What do you guys think about buying this stock for the dividends before the 13th? A $3.25 dividend would allow me to be to sustain a 10% loss in the stock price and hopefully it will go up from here. …

A cheap stock hidden on the OTC

Microsoft (MSFT): Wide Moat, AI CapEx, and Why the Market May Be Underestimating Long-Term Earnings Power

# TL;DR Microsoft is not a deep-value stock in the traditional sense, but I think the market may be underestimating its long-term earnings power. The central debate is: > Is Microsoft’s AI CapEx cycle creating future earnings power, or permanently …

$OTIS: Another watchlist name to focus on

Otis was spun out of UTX in 2020. At that time: 433mm shares, $50 stock price, $5.2B debt, $1.1B net income, $0.60 dividend Today 390mm shares, $72 stock price, $6.9B debt, $1.6B net income, $1.65 dividend EV then: $26.8B, EV …

I bought 18 stocks in the past year or so, out of which, AMD, Moderna and BRKR have been the best performing picks so far.

Coursera, STZ, and JD have been my worst-performing picks so far, each down about 20–30%. Even so, my portfolio excluding index funds is still up around 20% YTD. We’ll see how things look in 3–5 years. This is really a …

My case for NADQ

**Description of company** Nasdaq inc is a global Finance and Technology and exchange infrastructure company. It operates in three segments. Capital access platforms (market data, indicies, IR/governance tools), financial technology (Adenza regulatory/capital markets software, anti financial crime, market surveillance) and …

Trimmed my thought on investing

I know it but it was very hard to get down to this to bottom of my heart Every investor wants the stock to go up right after buying it. But honestly, have you ever seen a company actually work …