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You may have never heard of B&G Foods (NYSE: BGS), but there’s a good chance you’ve got some of the company’s products in your kitchen right now.
B&G Foods produces name-brand food products, such as Green Giant frozen vegetables, Mrs. Dash spices, Ortega tortillas and taco shells, SnackWell’s cookies, and many more snacks sold in grocery stores across the country.
The company buys struggling food brands and revamps them so that their sales resume growth.
Today it sports a hefty 11.67% dividend yield.
So will this double-digit yield have investors echoing the Green Giant’s signature “Ho, ho, ho”? Or will they say “No, no, …read more […]

Tech giant Microsoft is out with its fiscal first-quarter results. Yahoo Finance’s Heidi Chung breaks it down to Jen Rodgers, Myles Udland, and Akiko Fujita. …read more […]

Microsoft reported its Q1 2020 earnings on Wednesday, beating on both revenue and earnings per share. …read more […]

For beginners, it can seem like a good idea (and an exciting prospect) to buy a company that tells a good story to… …read more […]

NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) – Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd’s proposed $23 billion (£17.85 billion) drug giveaway to settle thousands of U.S. opioid lawsuits will likely cost the company a fraction of that figure due to how it has valued those medicines, according to a Reuters review of pricing data and industry analysts. When Teva announced the value of the donated medicine – a generic version of opioid addiction treatment Suboxone – it based the figure on the drug’s list price, which does not account for significant discounts routinely provided by the drugmaker. If based on the estimated cost …read more […]

There’s no doubt that money can be made by owning shares of unprofitable businesses. For example, although… …read more […]

The parent company of Snapchat reported earnings that beat expectations, but provided a weak outlook. Yahoo Finance’s Brian Cheung, Ines Ferre and Heidi Chung join Akiko Fujita on The Ticker to discuss. …read more […]

China makes headlines almost every day. But I never really talk about it. That changes today.
First, you have to understand that China and I go way back. I’ve spent a lot of time there. I’ve done several business deals in China. And, before that, while working for then-Maryland Gov. William Schaefer, I helped open the state’s first Chinese office in Shanghai.
Some of the best moments in my career happened in China, like when the governor of Shanghai threw a state dinner in my honor. And some of the worst… like when my company had a prospective partner withdraw its support …read more […]