Panera Bread Company (PNRA)

pencils2 (99.73) Submitted: 1/11/07 10:19 AM : Start Price: $56.94 PNRA Score: 12.11

Business

Panera Bread engages in the ownership and franchising of bakery-cafés in the U.S. Panera offers baked goods and other dough items, pizza, soups, salads, custom-roasted coffees, a lot of natural, fresh, organic food. Panera really aims for a...

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MCHSkdog (86.48) Submitted: 7/21/07 3:14 AM : Start Price: $46.12 PNRA Score: -31.91

Food, beverage, and restaurant stocks will underperform because of the current high cost of food and energy prices.

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rthambu (< 20) Submitted: 8/18/06 7:13 PM : Start Price: $52.52 PNRA Score: 13.02

Long-time FOOLS may be well aware of Panera Breads Co. (PNRA) as a superbly run company (the CEO was interviewed by David Gardner in the Radio Show a few months back) which has positioned itself nicely to the 30 - 45 year olds especially second gener...

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arnie99 (< 20) Submitted: 8/19/06 4:21 PM : Start Price: $52.30 PNRA Score: 13.20

Great product and concept. Well managed, opening new restaurants at a rate of ~10% of total yearly.

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DP1980 (62.80) Submitted: 3/24/08 12:00 PM : Start Price: $43.69 PNRA Score: 29.47

Strong financials, they got pounded with the astronomical jump in wheat prices which destroyed margins. Managment is committed to improving margins, and has always been effective in the past when focused. They have posted good growth numbers consis...

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broon03 (25.43) Submitted: 9/16/06 5:23 AM : Start Price: $59.16 PNRA Score: 5.67

I feel very comfortable going to Panera - and I like the fact that I'm eating a little healthier than fast food. Invest in what you know and like...I like the expansion prospects...and the fact that it is a cheaper stock than it was 8 months ago.

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CodeCracker (< 20) Submitted: 7/12/07 12:32 AM : Start Price: $47.20 PNRA Score: 29.47

Panera is a leader in the quick-casual segment of the restaurant business. More important, it's same-store sales improved 2.3% in June which likely will lead to earnings upgrades and brokerage upgrades. Analysts say the company should be able to beat...

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ChemFool (< 20) Submitted: 8/25/06 3:33 AM : Start Price: $50.00 PNRA Score: 16.27

Panera has a track record of success, good food and nice atmosphere at reasonable cost. They have a highly replicable store, meaning they are not real estate limited to front-and-center locations like larger restaraunts - rather they can multiply al...

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falcon2382 (98.76) Submitted: 5/01/08 6:46 AM : Start Price: $51.83 PNRA Score: -17.54

Oh that is sooo frustrating---I just spent about 40 minutes writing a detailed pitch as to why I think Panera is WAY overextended at current levels and something happened with CAPS and it didn't register.

The skinny of the pitch is this:

Panera is ...

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TheFlyingFool (76.89) Submitted: 9/29/06 2:15 PM : Start Price: $59.02 PNRA Score: 6.68

This is a great growing company. Management is extremely efficient and able to open a new unit almost every day using cash from operations and not issuing debt. Same unit sales and earnings continue to grow at a nice pace.

Panera has a very loyal c...

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