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Here's a look at the top tickers trending on StockTwits.com Sina: Record breaking milestone Sina Weibo is the Chinese equivalent of Twitter and set a corporate historical milestone last night. Sina Weibo users “tweeted” 863,408 posts within the first minute of the Chinese New Year, 130,000...

January, with its five percent correction, is behind us, and earnings continue to roll out this week, whether or not the groundhog saw his shadow. Highlights will include quarterly results from General Motors (NYSE: GM), Merck (NYSE: MRK), Philip Morris (NYSE: PM) and Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS),...

Pizza is a very popular commodity in the United States both for consumers ,as well as investors. The pizza industry generates about $40 billion annually, with about five billion pizzas being sold around the world on a yearly basis -- 3 billion sold in the U.S. alone. Publicly traded pizza companies...

McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) is scheduled to report its third-quarter results Monday, October 21, before the markets open. Investors will be looking to see whether new products such as chicken wraps and the focus on the Dollar Menu to entice budget conscious consumers have driven any improvement in...

Each year, U.S. taxpayers pay out $1.2 billion in public assistance to workers at McDonald’s (NYSE: MCD), according to a study released Tuesday by the National Employment Law Project. The NELP study used data from another one conducted by economists at the University of California-Berkeley and...

Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC) will kick off the new earnings season this week. Analysts are looking for revenue declines from these three, and only Wells Fargo to post year-over-year earnings growth. Since it has dropped out of the Dow Jones...

QSR predicted it. Wall Street apparently confirmed it. The government shutdown is hurting restaurants, and as a result, restaurant stocks. Leading decliners at noon on Wednesday were Frisch’s (NYSE: FRS), down more than four percent, Brinker International (NYSE: EAT) down almost two percent,...

Highlights on the earnings front this week will include the reports from Walgreen (NYSE: WAG) and Monsanto (NYSE: MON). Analysts are looking for year-over-year growth of revenues from both of them, but a net loss from the agribusiness giant. Others scheduled to step onto the earnings stage this...

New research from Oppenheimer suggests that many leisure stocks may be overpriced now. The analysts suggest that investors may want to sell the following four restaurant stocks now in order to rotate into more profitable sectors, such as energy or materials. Below we take a look at how Darden...

While big retailers like Walmart (NYSE: WMT) have been offering so-so results for the most recent quarter and lowering their guidance, blaming consumer reluctance to spend, several restaurant stocks have posted better than expected earnings and some have announced expansion plans. Biglari Holdings...

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE: CMG), which was the #46 most shorted S&P 500 component at the last settlement date, is scheduled to report its second-quarter 2013 results Thursday, July 18, after the markets close. Though solid results are expected, investors will be keeping an eye on the same-...

Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM), which is slowly recovering from last December's KFC chicken scare and subsequent avian flu fears in China, is scheduled to report its second-quarter results Wednesday, July 10, after the markets close. Yum! Brands makes much of its revenue in China, and investors have...

The new earnings season kicks off this week with the traditional first report from Alcoa (NYSE: AA) on Monday afternoon. The first of the big banks, J.P. Morgan (NYSE: JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), close out the week when they step into the earnings spotlight Friday morning. Analysts predict...

When you hear the name, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), if you’re like most people the first thing you think about is coffee. Starbucks would like to change your thinking – at least to some extent. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, it would also like you to think about soda. Specifically “...