Sara Lee Corp. (NYSE:SLE)

This stock is expected to grow over the next year!

The market is unstable and sara lee is consistently a stable company.

February 28, 2008 11:05 AM EST

Sara Lee (NYSE: SLE) Chairman and CEO, Brenda Barnes, bought 10,000 shares on 2/27 at $12.99, bringing her stake to 187,729 shares.

Sara Lee Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of a range of branded packaged meat products, fresh and frozen bakery products, roast and ground coffee, and household and body care products worldwide.

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Large buyback in place and just increased its dividend. Good stuff considering the stock is trading near historic lows. Strong oversees presence will allow the company to take advantage of the weak dollar. Lots of good names within the company means consumer recognition. Good buy here.

Sara Lee Corporation engages in the manufacture and marketing of a range of branded packaged meat products, fresh and frozen bakery products, roast and ground coffee, and household and body care products worldwide.

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Posted positive Earnings surprise recently. Good earning history.

Big household name will rise again.

Shrinking revenue and shrinking profit for the last three years in a row. Will it bounce back? Maybe...but it will take a few years and I don't see this outperforming the S&P in the meantime.

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

Five years from now SLE will either be a subsidiary of Kraft or taken private. I think the sum of the parts are greater than the whole. A good LBO at 18 plus wouldn't surprise me here.

I like the direction management has been going with Sara Lee but feel the stock is overpriced compared with performance right now.

I am going to stretch on this one, I believe in the management, but am concerned about their brands. It does not have a compeling story for me, but I do think that it will advance.

after spinning off the hanes brand, will concentrate more on their core business

SLE has completed the

Sara Lee Corporation is a global consumer products company with food, beverage, and household and body care businesses. It markets its product under the brand name like Ambi Pur, Ball Park, Douwe Egberts, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean, Kiwi, Sanex and Senseo. The company’s product portfolio is well distributed across Bakery, Beverage, Foodservices and Household and Body Care.

In February 2005, the company announced a transformation plan designed to improve performance for long-term growth. The company decided to dispose off select businesses and concentrate on core products. As a part of restructuring strategy the company spun off its branded apparels, which was its major revenue-generating segment. The entire transformation plan is expected to be completed by the fiscal 2010.

Revenues of the company have been struggling to maintain a positive growth over the past few quarters. However, for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 the company has posted a growth of 5% in its revenue, thanks to acquisitions and dispositions, which is a part of its transformation plan. Further, decline in marketing activities might be viewed as a negative factor for the top line. Gross margin has been under pressure due to higher commodity and fuel cost, with restructuring initiatives limiting the margins growth, going ahead.

In the long run the transformation plan might boost the top line, but however in the near term margins would be strained on account of restructuring costs. This has been already viewed in the form of dividend cut. Looking at these aspects, for the coming year SLE is expected to underperform when compared with the market.

will take longer than anticipated for restructuring of brands to come about... from a marketing perspective, to effective cross-marketing, to a product creation perspective, they have to do a lot to even meet expectations. any growth will come from personal care division.

restructuring it brand of meat and bake good leisure products