Story Stocks: Smithfield Foods (NYSE:SFD), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR), Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX)
March 10, 2011 at 12:13 PM EST
Smithfield Foods (NYSE:SFD) said Thursday its third-quarter net income rose to $202.6 million, or $1.21 a share, from $37.3 million, or 22 cents a share, in the year-ago period. Adjusted earnings at the meat company totaled 84 cents a share. Sales increased to $3.19 billion, from $2.88 billion. Wall Street analysts expected Smithfield to . . . → Read More: Story Stocks: Smithfield Foods (NYSE:SFD), Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (NASDAQ:GMCR), Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX)