When it rains it pours is a phrase that springs to mind whenever I think about Kraft Heinz stock. If losing almost half of its 2015 peak value and contending with sluggish growth wasn’t bad enough, we were then hit with news of a multi-billion dollar write down of certain brands, a SEC investigation into the company’s accounting polices and…

When dealing with commodity shares always bear in mind the counter intuitive nature of their valuations. In good times earnings tend to be sky high. As a result conventional valuation metrics like the price-to-earnings ratio might look very cheap. Conversely when times are bad earnings crater and the same metric might look very expensive. The reality is that the complete…

Google’s parent company Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) released its 2018 results amid the flurry of news over the past few weeks. Overall the figures looked good to me, even though the market’s reaction was more ambivalent. I’ll start with the major plus point: growth is strong, and I think you can make a good case that it is trading at a…

I had a reader get in touch wondering if she should be worried about Coca-Cola’s (NYSE: KO) balance sheet. Like many stodgy blue chips the company has issued a fair slug of debt over the past few years. For instance at the end of 2012 Coke had around $32 billion worth of debt sitting on its balance sheet. Right now…

Unless you are reading this from certain counties in Pennsylvania then you have probably never heard of York Water Company (NASDAQ: YORW). After all this little utility stock has got to be one of the smallest I have covered so far. Its annual revenue this year will register around $50 million and it currently sports a market capitalization that is…

A large portion of recent articles have been devoted to what you could call ‘deleveraging plays’. By that I mean companies which can probably generate solid shareholder returns simply by paying down their debt. Some good examples include the likes of Anheuser-Busch InBev, Molson Coors, AT&T and Kraft Heinz. There is one more I’d like to add to that list: media…