Hot Small Cap Companies To Watch In Right Now

Hot Small Cap Companies To Watch In Right Now: Panera Bread Company(PNRA)

Panera Bread Company, together with its subsidiaries, owns, operates, and franchises retail bakery-cafes in the United States and Canada. Its bakery-cafes offer fresh baked goods, sandwiches, soups, salads, custom roasted coffees, and other complementary products, as well as provide catering services. The company also manufactures and supplies dough and other products to company-owned and franchise-operated bakery-cafes. As of March 29, 2011, it owned and franchised 1,467 bakery-cafes under the Panera Bread, Saint Louis Bread Co., and Paradise Bakery & Cafe names. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Ben Levisohn]

  The main risk for Chipotle, Kalinowski says, is “a relatively high valuation compared to most other restaurant stocks we cover.” Chipotle trades at 36.73 times forward earnings, while Starbucks (SBUX) trades at 24.7 times, Panera Bread (PNRA) trades at 19.1 times and McDonald’s (MCD) trades at 15.8 times.

• [By Dan Caplinger]

  On Tuesday, Panera Bread (NASDAQ: PNRA  ) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever inevitable surprises arise. That way, you'll be less likely to make an uninformed knee-jerk reaction to news that turns out to be exactly the wrong move.

• [By Steve Symington]

  Even so, investors have remained frustrated by Chipotle's refusal to either open stores at a faster pace or raise prices to improve tepid same-store sales growth, which came in at just 3.8% last quarter. That's shy of competing healthy eateries, includingPanera Bread (NASDAQ: PNRA  ) which recently said its same-store growth came in at an impressive 5.1% last quarte! r. Even still, by not immediately raising prices, Chipotle is intelligently building customer goodwill, and remains open to the possibility of raising prices as economic conditions improve.

• [By Jon C. Ogg]

  Panera Bread Co. (NASDAQ: PNRA) was downgraded to Hold from a prior Buy rating at Jefferies.

  Royal Gold Inc. (NASDAQ: RGLD) was downgraded to Hold from Buy at BB&T Capital Markets.

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