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This weekend's Barron's cover story asks what a social media giant can do to become more transparent. Other featured articles examine a media conglomerate facing a win-win situation and a consumer staples giant that now resembles a bargain. Also, the prospects for an old-school...

Black Friday is the traditional start to the holiday shopping season, but it will not be just holiday shoppers who are searching for bargains starting next week. With U.S. markets at or near record highs, investors are no doubt keeping an eye out for bargains as well. Analysts on average see...

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) is so much more refreshing on a sunny day, wouldn't you say? La-Z-Boy (NYSE: LZB) chairs are more comfortable when the sky is clear, are they not? And when the temperature rises, consumers can't resist shopping at Target (NYSE: TGT). That is more or less the claim of...

Quarterly reports from FedEx (NYSE: FDX), Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) will be among the highlights on the earnings front this week. Here is a quick look at what analysts are expecting from these and some of the week's other, most prominent earnings reports. See also: Weekly...

It is not unusual for stocks on a tear to overrun their mean price targets, which is a signal of how far analysts on average expect the share price to climb. Some of this year's top performing consumer goods stocks that pay dividends, such as Flowers Foods (NYSE: FLO), Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL)...