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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Jim Cramer Highlights Short-Term Upside for Conagra
Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE:CAG) is one of the stocks that Jim Cramer looked at. When a caller inquired about the company, Cramer commented: 'Conagra, okay, here's what's going to happen with Conagra: In the next two days, Conagra's going to be up because we're involved in a rotation, and then on day three, I think you'd want to exit stage right on Conagra.' bluebay/ Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG) produces and sells a wide range of packaged food products, including shelf-stable, refrigerated, frozen, and customized items for retail and foodservice. The company markets its products under well-known brands like Birds Eye, Healthy Choice, and Slim Jim. On July 11, Cramer suggested against buying the company stock, as he said: 'Very tough, very tough situation. Conagra's got 7% inflation. They got problem with tin cans. They can't, it's killing them… The margins aren't that good. The brands aren't enabling them to be able to take any price. I have to tell you, the one thing that was important was that, on the conference call, they did say that they think they have no problem paying the dividend. A company that has to answer about whether it has a problem paying the dividend or not is a company that I say [don't buy, don't buy, don't buy].' While we acknowledge the potential of CAG as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 30 Stocks That Should Double in 3 Years and 11 Hidden AI Stocks to Buy Right Now. Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey. Sign in to access your portfolio
Telegraph
21-07-2025
- General
- Telegraph
Findus Crispy Pancakes to air-fryer chips: How the British freezer has changed though the years
The idea of preserving food by stashing it in a very cold place is as old as humanity itself. But the process wasn't successfully domesticated until a century ago, when Clarence Birdseye returned from a stint as a fur trapper among the Inuit community in Newfoundland between 1912 and 1926. Noting that the fish they caught would freeze immediately when pulled from the water at this latitude, Birdseye was impressed that it kept its texture and flavour when defrosted months later. He discovered that the same retention of flavour applied to peas if they were blanched after picking and then immediately frozen, even keeping their bold green colour. Fast forward to 1929 and, operating under the catchy moniker Captain Birdseye, Clarence introduced frozen food to the American consumer. It wasn't until the 1970s that home freezers (produced by brands such as Lec and Co-op) began to replace traditional larders on this side of the Atlantic. They've housed our homemade and processed comestibles ever since... Having smoked endless cigarettes and sipped Party Sevens and Lambrini until we passed out on our paisley bedspreads, our only hope of getting up in time for work was the teasmade going off. Which it almost never did. Our frozen-meal choices reflected our lack of concern for our health. Vegetables and homemade soups were considered suspicious interlopers while Crispy Pancakes and lasagne filled the drawers (courtesy of Findus), along with boxes bearing BirdsEye Steakhouse Grills and, for afters, Sara Lee gâteaux and Arctic Roll. Meanwhile Rodney ' Likely Lads ' Bewes enticed the housewives of Britain to buy BirdsEye products during ITV ad breaks with the pay-off line: 'Be a good girl, have a proper lunch tomorrow'. Different times indeed. Our freezers had to keep up with our frenetic, shoulder-padded lifestyles but the nutritional content of what was in them was firmly stuck in the epoch of Dennis Skinner and the three-day week. It was the advent of the frozen microwave meal – Vesta Chow Mein or Beef Curry? Take your pick – which could be heated up in our new Panasonic in minutes, meaning a near-instant dinner for the stressed, junior-executive coat-hanger salesman. The results were barely an improvement on boil-in-the-bag; questionable, too, was the noxious ooze of a BirdsEye Chicken Kiev, a common precursor to the glacial, impasted horror of a Wall's Viennetta. We maxed out our credit cards like avaricious Gulf sheiks in Harrods, but, looking back, our diet was in fact on the level of an Uzbek coal miner. Only we had McCain Oven Chips and a lot more plastic trappings to fill the pedal bin. By the end of the Thatcher era, home freezers were as ubiquitous as Gazza and Danny Baker's 'Daz' adverts. But we were starting to consider our life expectancy. Enter the health-conscious ready meal, a category dominated by WeightWatchers and Lean Cuisine, which tried to tempt us with 'meals' such as Honey Mustard Chicken with Grey Poupon, which, if you're wondering, is just another kind of mustard. Frozen-food manufacturers also assumed that we wanted smaller versions of things – which we did, buying up McCain Micro Chips and Chicago Town Mini Pizzas in our droves, perfect for that sensation of feeling both fiscally cheated and still really hungry come 9pm. We wanted to live longer but our new commitment to healthier frozen choices extended neither to our children – who, for the first time, were able to gorge on freezer treats marketed exclusively to them such as Turkey Dinosaurs and Calippo Shots – nor to our pudding choices, alternating as we did between Mars ice creams and tubs of Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough. Happy type 2 diabetes to us all. As budget airlines made a trip to Bali a more tempting option than a fortnight in Benidorm, frozen food manufactures struggled to produce versions of pho, sushi and nasi goreng that tasted even remotely like what we ate on holiday. In response, produce actually became more parochial, but with a premium twist. The downmarket reputation of the freezer-friendly microwave meal for one was rescued by M&S, Tesco and Sainsbury's launching top-rung ranges of dinners, from beef bourguignon to 'luxury' fish pies. If the concomitant prices were too high, there was also the option of a frozen Yorkshire pudding from Aunt Bessie, one of the most successful ways in which a dish perfected in the 1920s gas oven could be transposed to the era of Big Brother and Benetton. One of the few outliers with international aspirations was Sharwood's, which branched out from sauces into frozen Indian meals. More redolent of Doncaster than Delhi, they were at least an improvement on the Vesta curries of the 1970s. Meanwhile, BirdsEye dipped its toe into health-food signalling with its frozen Chicken Dippers, 'now with Omega 3'. The strapline was later quietly dropped from the packaging, presumably when it became apparent that most consumers thought Omega 3 was a games console; an item which freezes just as adequately as battered chunks of cheap hen. The premium trend reached its apotheosis with the M&S Gastropub range and, a notch higher still, Charlie Bigham's frozen meals which, if eaten daily, remain capable of bankrupting Warren Buffett himself. Yet this was also the era when we started to get artisanal with our freezer drawers. Herbs? Avocado chunks? Smoothies? Bone broth? We discovered we could freeze them all. While ensuring that there was still room for bags of frozen seafood mix for our make-from-scratch endeavours, as well as the ever-expanding thin-crust pizza ranges with toppings that, finally, extended beyond margarita and pepperoni. This was also the decade that saw Instagram infiltrate our kitchens. All at once, Little Moons mochi ice cream balls became an essential dessert staple among children and Instagrammers with the IQ of children but with access to a tripod and portable charger. Domestic freezers today can breathe a sigh of capacious relief after the full-to-bursting era of Covid stockpiling. They still contain forgotten Plant Chef and Moving Mountains vegan burgers, which we will eventually eat with the kind of grudging sanctimony usually displayed by Jeremy Corbyn's inner retinue. As for kitchen newcomer the air fryer, well, that's just far more fun isn't it? Discovering that frostbitten Brussels sprouts from last Christmas taste good in the Ninja is the present-day equivalent of Alexander Fleming mucking about with penicillin. We must now, naturally, give frozen chips the same treatment. TGI Friday's and Greggs have, oddly, compelled us to eat in rather than dining out by launching 'fakeaway' chicken meals and frozen sausage rolls respectively, and I won't even pass comment on the 'innovation' that is frozen veggie tots. Of course, there's little room left in our Miele for any Rodney Bewes-endorsed goods today. But open your freezer on a full moon and it's still possible to hear a Findus Crispy Pancake rattling its icy chains.
Yahoo
17-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Jim Cramer Calls Conagra a 'Very Tough Situation'
Conagra Brands, Inc. (NYSE:CAG) is one of the stocks in Jim Cramer's spotlightt. When Cramer was asked about the company during the lightning round, he stated: 'Very tough, very tough situation. Conagra's got 7% inflation. They got problem with tin cans. They can't, it's killing them… The margins aren't that good. The brands aren't enabling them to be able to take any price. I have to tell you, the one thing that was important was that, on the conference call, they did say that they think they have no problem paying the dividend. A company that has to answer about whether it has a problem paying the dividend or not is a company that I say [don't buy, don't buy, don't buy].' A worker assembling a meal in a food production facility. Conagra (NYSE:CAG) produces and sells a wide range of packaged food products, including frozen meals, snacks, sauces, and shelf-stable items. The company's portfolio includes well-known brands like Birds Eye, Healthy Choice, Slim Jim, and Duncan Hines. While we acknowledge the potential of CAG as an investment, we believe certain AI stocks offer greater upside potential and carry less downside risk. If you're looking for an extremely undervalued AI stock that also stands to benefit significantly from Trump-era tariffs and the onshoring trend, see our free report on the best short-term AI stock. READ NEXT: 30 Stocks That Should Double in 3 Years and 11 Hidden AI Stocks to Buy Right Now. Disclosure: None. This article is originally published at Insider Monkey.
Glasgow Times
10-07-2025
- Business
- Glasgow Times
Co-op brings back its 'best ever' Freezer Filler deal
Customers have praised the "insanely cheap" offer, which offers members five big-brand freezer favourites for £6, saving £8.30. Non-members pay £6.50, still saving £7.80. The only catch is that you need to buy everything - if anything is out of stock, the whole deal doesn't work. What's in the Co-op Freezer Filler deal? This time, it's offering: Birds Eye 8 100% Crispy Fish Fingers 224g Dr. Oetker Ristorante Mozzarella Pizza 335g McCain Smiles 454g Nestle Rowntree Multi Pack 6x80ml Rowntree's Mango Stick 4x70ml It's available in store and online from today (July 9) until August 5. Some of the products in the new Freezer Filler Co-op deal (Image: Co-op) In the Extreme Couponing and Bargaining Facebook group, customers have described the Co-op's deal as "best ever" and "insanely cheap". Some recommended buying the deal, even if one item isn't your favourite, and then giving that item to a friend: "Last time I bought it for the Magnums, oven chips, peas and the scampi, as they were worth more than a tenner on their own, then I gave the chicken burgers to my neighbour". The Co-op pizza and beer deal is back Co-op pizza is part of a new deal (Image: Co-op) Today also sees the return of the popular pizza and beer deal, which gives members two pizzas and a pack of four beers, or soft drink, for £6, saving up to £7.65, again a saving of more than half. This includes Co-op Stonebaked Pepperoni Pizza 327g or Co-op Stonebaked Margherita Pizzas 320g, plus Budweiser Bottles 4x300ml OR Coca Cola Zero Sugar 4x330ml. Non-Members pay £7, saving up to £6.65. Available in store and online from today until August 5. Love this @coopuk! Co-op Members can now get their everyday essentials price matched to Aldi! Amazing 🙌 Not yet a member? Sign up now! 👉 — Gary Sullivan Redpath (@gazredpath) July 8, 2025 New Co-op ready meal deals There's also a new deal today on two Irresistible ready meals for £7.50, saving up to £2.70. This includes: Co-op Irresistibile Lasagne Al Forno 400g Co-op Irresistible Macaroni Cheese 350g Co-op Irresistible Chicken Tikka Masala 380g Co-op Irresistible Paella 400g Co-op Irresistible Cottage Pie 400g Co-op Irresistible Fish Pie 400g Co-op Irresistible Ham Gratin 400g Co-op Irresistible Mushroom Risotto 400g Co-op Irresistible Lamb Moussaka 400g Co-op Irresistible Beef Pappardelle 350g Available in store and online from today until August 5. Recommended reading: Co-op wine deals There's also deals on own-brand wine, including: Co-op Irresistible Prosecco Rosé Italy Rosé 2300 Stores £6.50 (usually £8.70) Shore Drift Sauvignon Blanc Fairtrade 75cl South Africa White £6.90 (usually £8.15 Co-op Fairtrade Shiraz 75cl South Africa Red £6.00 (usually £7.15) Wine deals finish on July 15, so be quick.
The Herald Scotland
09-07-2025
- Business
- The Herald Scotland
Co-op brings back its 'best ever' Freezer Filler deal
The only catch is that you need to buy everything - if anything is out of stock, the whole deal doesn't work. What's in the Co-op Freezer Filler deal? This time, it's offering: Birds Eye 8 100% Crispy Fish Fingers 224g Dr. Oetker Ristorante Mozzarella Pizza 335g McCain Smiles 454g Nestle Rowntree Multi Pack 6x80ml Rowntree's Mango Stick 4x70ml It's available in store and online from today (July 9) until August 5. Some of the products in the new Freezer Filler Co-op deal (Image: Co-op) In the Extreme Couponing and Bargaining Facebook group, customers have described the Co-op's deal as "best ever" and "insanely cheap". Some recommended buying the deal, even if one item isn't your favourite, and then giving that item to a friend: "Last time I bought it for the Magnums, oven chips, peas and the scampi, as they were worth more than a tenner on their own, then I gave the chicken burgers to my neighbour". The Co-op pizza and beer deal is back Co-op pizza is part of a new deal (Image: Co-op) Today also sees the return of the popular pizza and beer deal, which gives members two pizzas and a pack of four beers, or soft drink, for £6, saving up to £7.65, again a saving of more than half. This includes Co-op Stonebaked Pepperoni Pizza 327g or Co-op Stonebaked Margherita Pizzas 320g, plus Budweiser Bottles 4x300ml OR Coca Cola Zero Sugar 4x330ml. Non-Members pay £7, saving up to £6.65. Available in store and online from today until August 5. Love this @coopuk! Co-op Members can now get their everyday essentials price matched to Aldi! Amazing 🙌 Not yet a member? Sign up now! 👉 — Gary Sullivan Redpath (@gazredpath) July 8, 2025 New Co-op ready meal deals There's also a new deal today on two Irresistible ready meals for £7.50, saving up to £2.70. This includes: Co-op Irresistibile Lasagne Al Forno 400g Co-op Irresistible Macaroni Cheese 350g Co-op Irresistible Chicken Tikka Masala 380g Co-op Irresistible Paella 400g Co-op Irresistible Cottage Pie 400g Co-op Irresistible Fish Pie 400g Co-op Irresistible Ham Gratin 400g Co-op Irresistible Mushroom Risotto 400g Co-op Irresistible Lamb Moussaka 400g Co-op Irresistible Beef Pappardelle 350g Available in store and online from today until August 5. Recommended reading: Co-op wine deals There's also deals on own-brand wine, including: Co-op Irresistible Prosecco Rosé Italy Rosé 2300 Stores £6.50 (usually £8.70) Shore Drift Sauvignon Blanc Fairtrade 75cl South Africa White £6.90 (usually £8.15 Co-op Fairtrade Shiraz 75cl South Africa Red £6.00 (usually £7.15) Wine deals finish on July 15, so be quick.
