{"id":12623,"date":"2011-03-22T14:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T18:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2016-09-20T18:26:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T22:26:59","slug":"march-market-madness-kraft-foods-kft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/march-market-madness-kraft-foods-kft\/","title":{"rendered":"March Market Madness:  Kraft Foods (KFT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned <a title=\"March Market Madness: 30 Stocks in 30 Days\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/march-market-madness-30-stocks-in-30-days\/\">earlier<\/a>, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA. . Next up Kraft Foods (KFT). <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-disciplined-investor\/id217999782\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-257 alignright\" title=\"iTunes Subscribe\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/itunes_subscribe-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The score tells the story here. a -1.0 translates to a Strong Sell in our system. While fundamentals have a 1.1 score, the 5 year average EPS growth rate of -3.5% is pitiful. That is with revenues growing at a healthy clip. Overall, the high input prices for food have been a problem for Kraft.<\/p>\n<p>Shares are still above their long-term trend support levels, making it seem<!--more--> to be in a general consolidation. Yet moving below the 50-day is not a good sign as general buying as shown through the Volume Pressure is rather anemic.<\/p>\n<p>If a 3.78% dividend yield is exciting, then perhaps a slow mover like this may be something to research further, otherwise what is the point? It looks like investments in Kraft may be dead money for now.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;\" title=\"View KFT 20110317 on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/50960746\/KFT-20110317\">KFT 20110317<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function() { var scribd = document.createElement(\"script\"); scribd.type = \"text\/javascript\"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = \"\/javascripts\/embed_code\/inject.js?1300351301\"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(\"script\")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we mentioned earlier, this month we are going to be looking at the stocks that make up the DJIA. . Next up Kraft Foods (KFT). The score tells the story here. a -1.0 translates to a Strong Sell in our system. While fundamentals have a 1.1 score, the 5 year average EPS growth rate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[490],"class_list":["post-12623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-stocks","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}