Dean Foods Co. (fka DFODQ)

[mick]

YES , IN THERE, $DF

[Saskey]

Don't know about Mick, but I recently jumped in. Love the potential!

[4Godnwv]

Hey mick, you still playing DF? Think the new USMCA moves it this fall?
tia, 4God

[mick]

Dean Foods Company (DF)
8.31 ? 0.02 (0.24%)
Volume: 1,286,150 @ 6:08:07 PM EDT ET
Bid Ask Day's Range
- - 8.28 - 8.48
DF Detailed Quote

[Sziszi]

Your full of s..t

[mick]

THANK YOU, $DF

[mick]

BUYOUT / $DF

[Sziszi]

For what? DF ? Being at all time low???

[mick]

THANK YOU $DF

[$treet $inatra]

Dropping big today, gap down

[cjmeyer]

Tanking today.Looks like another rough patch for these guys

[ITMS]

Is Dean Foods Co (NYSE:DF) Finally Flashing A Buy Signal?

Leading food and beverage company, Dean Foods Co (NYSE:DF), has been one of the worst performing stocks of 2017. This stock peaked out in January 2017 at $22.31 a share. Today, DF stock is trading around $11.57, this shows you how beaten up the stock got last year. Traders and investors should now note that the stock finally looks attractive on the charts. The current pattern is forming a bullish consolidation set-up. This chart structure is signaling upside to around the $13.00 level.



Full Disclosure: Nick Santiago owns call options in Dean Foods Co.




Nicholas Santiago
InTheMoneyStocks

[Sziszi]

Two big 268k blocks sold Pre-m ??!

[KOmani]

Going red to green today.

Lots of short covering to occur.

There is a significant amount of shorts and they will do their thing.

There was 12 Million or shares short as of the last report I could find.

I am long from $11.75 and hoping for a good bounce into $12s

[ITMS]

Earnings Season: Know When To Hold Em, Know When To Fold Em

It's earnings season! This is when corporations will report their quarterly results and usually issue future guidance for the company. This is also a period when stocks will often have big price swings after the earning announcement. For many traders and investors it can be an exciting time to trade, but danger lurks when market participants hold stocks into an earnings announcement.

Just yesterday, I closed out a long trade in Dean Foods Co (NYSE:DF) at $14.99 a share. The reason I exited the position was because the company was scheduled to report earnings this morning before the opening bell. Unfortunately for me I lost 0.11 cents on the Dean Foods trade as my entry was $15.10. I know, nobody likes to take losses on trades, but sometimes that is the best move to make ahead of an earnings announcement. If you take a look at the reaction today in Dean Foods Co today after earnings it is not pretty. In fact, DF stock is trading lower by $2.80 to $12.17 a share today after reporting earnings. Believe it or not, this is a decline of nearly 19.0 percent on the day. Now my 0.11 cent loss looks like a victory after this terrible reaction to the Dean Foods Co earnings report.

Now to be fair, sometimes stocks can rocket higher after earnings reports. Many traders will often celebrate with excitement if they hold a stock and are on the right side of the earnings reaction. Just think how I would feel if Dean Foods Co was trading higher by $3.00 after I sold it yesterday, probably not very good. After trading for so many years I have realized that trading earnings is very much like gambling, the odds are simply not in my favor to make that bet. So I have accepted the fact that holding stocks into earnings is extremely risky and simply not my style of trading.

If you do decide to hold a stock into an earnings announcement it is best to hold a low beta stock. A low beta stock is an equity that is less volatile, will historically move in a smaller and tighter range. Earlier this earnings season I held Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) into earnings. The stock traded down about 0.30 cents before ultimately recovering and making new highs. BAC stock is a low beta equity and I was actually in the money on the trade before earnings, so there was not a lot of risk of a major decline. Either way, holding stocks into earnings is extremely risky, every trader and investor should understand the odds are no longer in your favor ahead of a corporate earnings report.



Nicholas Santiago
InTheMoneyStocks

[BajaWizard]

Why all the dumping lately?!?!!?

[KingWally]

WHY ALL THE BUYING IN LAST MONTH????????

[mick]

thank you, Dean Foods Co. (DF) 16.84 ? -0.1 (-0.59%)
Volume: 2,228,435 @ 4:34:47 PM ET

Bid Ask Day's Range
- - 16.66 - 17.17

DF Detailed Quote Wiki

[Aunt Fannie]

Got some DF today.

[mick]

oops, that's bad but cramer bring in DF today a.h. up $0.70 as he started chat.

cnbc

df

[Sirpeter]

sounds like my buddy Phil is in over his head...

[TheFinalCD]

Authorities also are looking into trades Mickelson and Walters made related to Dean Foods (DF).

Feds investigating Carl Icahn, Phil Mickelson for insider trading
The FBI and SEC are pursuing a major insider trading probe involving investor Carl Icahn, golfer Phil Mickelson and Las Vegas gambler Billy Walters, according to multiple reports.
Investigators reportedly are examining whether Icahn (IEP) passed non-public tips on investments he was planning to make to Walters, and whether Walters then tipped Mickelson.
The government investigation is said to have begun after Icahn accumulated a 9% stake in Clorox (CLX) in Feb. 2011; Icahn made a $10.2B bid for CLX in July, and large, risky trades made in CLX options in the days before the bid sparked rumors that word had leaked.

[ferrari21]

No one here, this must be a good one then!

[$A-Train]

Pretty harsh words today from media outlets, the loss of the Walmart contract will probably hurt quite a bit. I'm watching for more downside.

[Captain Hindsight]

Who keeps buying this up off the lows, just let it die. ; )

[Penny Roger$]

That is what people might not understand.. Still, even your gains pale in comparison to the long calls of 3 days back.. Nice reward and call.. Makes penny stocks seem worthless at times imo.

Still have fun in the sandbox though. hehe

[Captain Hindsight]

Not bad up 100% so far have until next week until they expire. Thanks bud good luck.

[Penny Roger$]

Congrats on that move there .. Ni$e play imo.

[MiamiGent]

DF Shares of Dean Foods soar 40 percent on IPO news [The Dallas Morning News]
BY MCT Business News 3:43 AM ET 08/09/2012

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=df

Aug. 09--Shares of Dallas-based Dean Foods Co. were up 40 percent Wednesday as investors reacted to a longtime wish come true.

For some time analysts have questioned the nation's largest dairy producer about unhitching its fast-growing organic milk and soy milk operation, seen as a cash cow, from the unit that produces traditional milk.

After the market closed Tuesday, Dean announced plans to launch an IPO for 20 percent of its WhiteWave-Alpro unit, which makes popular brands including Horizon organic milk, Silk soy and almond milks and Alpro soy foods and drinks. Dean will retain the other 80 percent.

Eventually Dean will spin that off, tax free, to its stockholders, who responded to the news by pushing up the company's stock price by $5.04 to $17.46 a share Wednesday.

It was the biggest percentage gain by far of any stock in the Standard & Poor's 500 index.

"WhiteWave-Alpro and the rest of Dean Foods have distinct product portfolios and business dynamics that require different management styles [and] operating philosophies," Gregg Engles, Dean's chief executive and chairman, told analysts Wednesday. "As such, we believe that the separation of WhiteWave-Alpro and Dean Foods is the next logical step in our journey to create value for our shareholders."

In the past, Dean Foods executives have pointed to the negative implications a split would have for Dean's debt load.

Under the current plan, IPO proceeds of about $300 million and an additional $800 million to $925 million borrowed by the new WhiteWave company would be used to pay down Dean Foods' debt.

Even without the split, Dean has focused on reducing its debt load.

"Our strong operating performance and the resulting improvement in our balance sheet has provided the enhanced financial flexibility necessary to pursue the separation of the business," said Engles, who will become chairman and chief executive of WhiteWave Foods Co. while also remaining Dean's chairman.

Engles said the company has "dramatically reduced our leverage over the last year," and added that net debt declined by $196 million between the first and second quarters.

The company's net debt stood at $3.5 billion at the end of the second quarter.

Follow Karen Robinson-Jacobs on Twitter at @krobijake.

[Penny Roger$]

Thanks.. I wish you well there.. You lived this longer than I.. You have also had good training in these matters. Still an amazing move that hits close to home I did not see coming.

[Captain Hindsight]

I only took 10 Aug 18 $17 Puts @ .30

They were down 94% or $4.50 from the move today, took a shot...

Good luck bud

[Penny Roger$]

I was being silly.. This was a crazy move.. DF is in every store I know of and feed prices will be doubling.. Will take a lot of rain next year and a two crop year to fill that gap. idk if they make cheeses though.. Mostly fast perishables I think.

[Captain Hindsight]

I got short through put options at the end of the day. Its a gamble I know but this just seems like too much too fast. This will hopefully consolidate after moving higher.

Congrats longs hope you booked some profits, this is a traders market.

[Penny Roger$]

If you were short on Dean Foods today and just got home.. This song is about you.. $DF

[detailman]

THANK YOU DF - $$$$$$$, it has been a pleasure, see you around!!

d-man

[Troy Lando]

Just sick DF + $4.48 36% So NICE

[dking1964]

Cramer put a buy on DF. In the past he has put a buy on a stock then short it. I just wonder what he is up to.

[Penny Roger$]

Hmm, looks like Wednesday now.

[Penny Roger$]

~ Monday! $DF ~ Earnings posted, pending or coming soon! In Charts and Links Below!

~ $DF ~ Earnings expected on Monday *
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*If the earnings date is in error please ignore error. I do my best.

[temp luvs amy]

You know what they say, buy chickens, sell vennison.

Or was that buy cheep, sell deer?

[HOVA]

GOOD TRADE

[BlindSquirrelFindsNuts]

Out of DF on a 50% gain.

To thine own self be true

[BlindSquirrelFindsNuts]

DF held over a year tomorrow. Will probably take my 45% profit and look for something else.

To thine own self be true

[HOVA]

McDonald's® USA Names Dean Foods 2011 U.S. Supplier of the Year $DF

OAK BROOK, IL--(Marketwire - September 29, 2011) - McDonald's USA recently announced that it has selected Dean Foods, a leading dairy supplier for many of McDonald's restaurants, as the 2011 U.S. Supplier of the Year. McDonald's revealed the U.S. Supplier of the Year Award at the recent U.S. Supplier Summit, an annual gathering of key U.S. McDonald's suppliers and distributors, held in Schaumburg, near its Oak Brook, Ill. headquarters.

As a trusted McDonald's supplier for many years, Dean Foods won the Supplier of the Year Award for implementing innovative products, initiating management programs, including playing a leading role in corporate quality assurance, and the development of long-term sustainability technologies. This is the first time Dean Foods has been honored as McDonald's Supplier of the Year.

"Dean Foods is a dedicated provider to the McDonald's brand and our franchisee community," said Dan Gorsky, Sr. Vice President, McDonald's North America Supply Chain. "Their continuous efforts to improve productivity and create alignment between our two businesses make Dean Foods one of our most valued suppliers."

"We are thankful to be recognized by McDonald's with this prestigious honor," said Kevin Yost, President of the Morningstar division of Dean Foods. "We're proud of our longstanding relationship with McDonald's and we will continue our efforts to surpass their expectations."

The McDonald's U.S. Supplier of the Year Award is presented annually to the food, paper or product supplier that makes the most significant impact on, and contribution to, McDonald's U.S. business results from the previous year. The award criteria include commitment to quality and food safety, product, equipment and process innovation, exemplary customer service and value.

About Dean Foods
Dean Foods is one of the leading food and beverage companies in the United States and a European leader in branded soy foods and beverages. The Company's Fresh Dairy Direct-Morningstar segment is the largest U.S. processor and distributor of milk, creamer and cultured dairy products. These offerings are marketed under more than 50 local and regional dairy brands, as well as through private labels. The WhiteWave-Alpro segment produces and sells an array of branded dairy, soy and plant-based beverages and foods. WhiteWave brands, including Silk® soy and almond milk, Horizon Organic® milk and dairy products, International Delight® coffee creamers and LAND O LAKES® creamers, are category leaders and consumer favorites. Alpro is the pan-European leader in branded soy food products.

About McDonald's
McDonald's USA, LLC, is the leading foodservice provider in the United States serving a variety of wholesome food made from quality ingredients to more than 26 million customers every day. Nearly 90 percent of McDonald's 14,000 U.S. restaurants are independently owned and operated by local business men and women. Customers can now log online for free at any of the 11,000 participating Wi-Fi enabled McDonald's U.S. restaurants. For more information, visit www.mcdonalds.com, or follow us on Twitter @McDonalds (http://twitter.com/McDonalds) and Facebook (Facebook.com/McDonalds) for updates on our business, promotions and products.

© 2011 McDonald's

CONTACT:
Ashlee Yingling
McDonald's USA
[e-mail]
630.623.7897

Liliana Esposito
Dean Foods
[e-mail]
214.721.7766

[Lotto123]

DF - Daily Candlesticks Ok gonna have to do some looking into this one again....

[HOVA]

Yes opposite to S lol

[Lotto123]

This one moves with the market....nice lil' scalp there....

[HOVA]

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[HOVA]

$10.18 close $10.28 HOD

[Lotto123]

Hmmmm....going to have to relook at this... lolzzzzzzzzz...nice find Hova...