(B)(N) The Fastest Food In America

The Wall Street Chop & Chops

Drama. After patiently bidding up the fast food companies by $50 billion and +24% all last year, and collecting $5.5 billion in dividends, the market decided that it was time for … a haircut? And promptly trimmed $11 billion and 5% off the aggregate market value with presumably discretionary cuts on assorted others – some of whom were “scalped”. Please see Exhibit 1 below.

The way the market works, of course, is that somebody bought at the top what somebody else was selling, and those who did are probably now wondering if they did the right thing or should they have bought their own lunch instead of everybody else’s? And despite 100,000 books and memoirs to the contrary, nobody knows how the market really works or what it’s working on now (CNBC, February 4, 2014, ‘Hot money’ ride could be getting put on ice).

Exhibit 1: The Fastest Food In America – Fundamentals – February 2014

The Fastest Food In America – Fundamentals – February 2014

The Cheapest Fastest Food In America – Risk Price Chart

But America doesn’t travel on an empty stomach – and it’s travelling now – and we like food and we like these stocks and, as usual, we buy them all – if warranted and with the usual safeguards – because if we’re not eating at one, we will be eating at the other.

All seventeen of them but for Darden Restaurants (please see Exhibit 3 below) are in the Perpetual Bond™ now and that portfolio returned +54% last year, plus our share of the dividends. Please see Exhibit 2 below and click on the link “The Fastest Food In America – Portfolio & Cash Flow Summary” for more details.

Exhibit 2: (B)(N) The Fastest Food In America – Prices & Portfolio – February 2014

The Fastest Food In America – Prices & Portfolio – February 2014

It’s because of our studied ignorance of how the market really works that we only buy and hold those stocks for which there is a demonstrated excess of demand over supply – that is, they are trading at or above the price of risk.

Exhibit 3: (B)(N) DRI Darden Restaurants Incorporated – Risk Price Chart

(B)(N) DRI Darden Restaurants Incorporated

Darden Restaurants has been walking close to the line, that is, the price of risk which is calculated as the Risk Price (SF) (Black line), for several years and it was an easier buy and hold in 2010 through 2012 but has fallen through now.

The indicated Stop/Loss prices are indicative only and need to be adjusted according to our sensitivity to a loss – and we always expect to lose but are often proven wrong.

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For more information on the chart elements and additional references to the theory, please see our Post, The RiskWerk Company Glossary.

And for more on what risk averse investing has done for us this year, please see our recent Posts on The S&P TSX “Hangdog” Market or The Wall Street Put or specialty markets such as The Dow Transports & Utilities or (B)(N) The Woods Are Burning, or for the real class action, La Dolce Vita – Let’s Do Prada! and It’s For You, Dear on the smartphone business.

And for more stocks at high prices, The World’s Most Talked About Stocks or Earnings Don’t Matter – NASDAQ 100. And for more on what’s Working in America, Big Oil, Shopping in America or Banking in America, to name just a few.

Postscript

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