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The pizza stock seesaw: Domino's soars, Rave plummets to new low
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The vast fortunes and losses to be made in the pizza business were evident in last week's pizza stock trading on Wall Street.
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Encouraged traders hoist Domino's, Papa John's, Yum Brands stock values
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Though it was a rough week for Pizza Inn and Pie Five parent, Rave Restaurant Group, other major publicly traded pizza companies fared well over the shortened…
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Papa John's preliminary North American Q2 comp sales up 28%
June 30, 2020
Papa John's International Inc. leadership said the brand delivered its third consecutive month of double-digit sales growth in North America, along with what…
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Pie Five Q3 comp sales plummet with pandemic onset
June 29, 2020
Pie Five and Pizza Inn parent, Rave Restaurant Group, had a brutal third quarter ending March 29, according to a company press release. Pie Five domestic…
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Pizza stocks riding the roller coaster
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
With half of 2020 in the books, Pizza Marketplace looked at stock values for four publicly traded pizza restaurant companies. On paper, the ups and downs…
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Yum Brands lone loser in last week's pizza stock trading
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Most pizza commodity prices, however, made relatively minute moves downward.
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Aside from Domino's, US pizza stocks fall
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Domino's made some gains in stock price last week, though investors were tighter with their purse strings with the remaining publicly traded U.S. pizza brands…
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Domino's dips, as competitors, commodities trade up
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Last week was a bit depressing for Domino's investors as the stock price for the pizza powerhouse dropped almost $10 over the week's trading. But all other…
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Mercato Partners launches $90M investment fund to fuel up-and-coming brands
June 4, 2020
Mercato Partners, an investor for growth-stage companies, has developed Savory, a $90 million fund to help scale up-and-coming restaurant concepts. To create…
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Pleased pizza investors pump up prices of publicly held brands
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The pandemic has proven that people will get their pizza come hell or high water, and that's continuing to prompt pizza company investors to take positive…
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Dominos early Q2 performance slowed by choppy international sales
May 27, 2020
Domino's Pizza Inc. reported a 14% rise in U.S. same store sales during the first eight weeks of the fiscal second quarter this year.
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Papa John's May North American comp sales soar 33.5%
May 27, 2020
Despite all the challenges of the current restaurant business environment, Louisville, Kentucky-based pizza brand, Papa John's has not only fared well over the…
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Cheese, wheat, gas prices climb, as year's top pizza stocks fall
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
All the staple ingredients that pizza restaurant companies depend on were trending up in price last week, indicating the industry's increasing pace forward on…
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KKR leads $43M funding round for Slice independent pizzeria platform
May 13, 2020
Pizzeria ordering and marketing tech platform, Slice (MyPizza Technologies, Inc.) has raised $43 million in Series C funding. KKR led the round with…
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Papa is pleased: Good week for pizza trading is great week for Papa John's
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Last week's positive Q1 earnings report for Louisville, Kentucky-based Papa John's made for very happy investors, as the brand posted a pick-up in value over…
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Papa John's Q1 results reveal turnaround, despite pandemic
May 7, 2020
Despite the many business pressures caused by COVID-19, Papa John's has nearly rebounded from the troubles that beset the company in recent years when it was…
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Domino's moves on up, joins S&P 500
May 7, 2020
S&P Dow Jones Indices said Wednesday it is adding Domino's Pizza Inc. to the S&P 500, the collection of 500 large companies that many view as the best…
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&pizza: Employee engagement key to tripling off-premise 'overnight'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Should a pizza chain give its employees help with everything from down-time fun and fitness, to purpose in their work and mental health support? &pizza thinks…
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Pizza stocks, gas + cheese prices reverse price trends in topsy-turvy trading week
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza share prices and commodities trading last week were in a role-reversal kind of mood, with some of the winning brands of recent weeks falling in value…
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Taco Bell shines as sole bright spot in Yum Brands Q1 sales
April 30, 2020
Though KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grille parent, Yum Brands, recorded a Q1 same-store sales decline of 7% after the tumultuous first…
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