Best Integrated Utility Companies To Own For 2015

Best Integrated Utility Companies To Own For 2015: SodaStream International Ltd.(SODA)

SodaStream International Ltd. engages in the development, manufacture, and marketing of home beverage carbonation systems and related products. Its home beverage carbonation systems enable consumers to transform ordinary tap water into carbonated soft drinks and sparkling water. The company offers a range of soda makers; exchangeable carbon-dioxide (CO2) cylinders; beverage-grade CO2 refills; reusable carbonation bottles; and various flavors comprising fruit, carbonated soft drink, and enhanced flavors to add to the carbonated water. It also sells additional accessories for its products, including bottle cleaning materials and ice cube trays manufactured by third parties. The company sells its products under the SodaStream and Soda-Club brand names through approximately 50,000 retail stores in 42 countries, as well as through the Internet; and distributes its products directly in 12 countries and indirectly through local distributors in other markets. It operates in Europe , North and Central America, Israel, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and east Asia. The company was formerly known as Soda-Club Holdings Ltd. and changed its name to SodaStream International Ltd. in March 2010. SodaStream International Ltd. is headquartered in Airport City, Israel.

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  And the market has made my case for me in recent days by punishing fad-oriented companies like Soda Stream International Ltd. (Nasdaq: SODA) and GoPro Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRO), for example. Big brands like Monsanto Co. (NYSE: MON) and Becton, Dickinson and Co. (NYSE: BDX), on the other hand, are doing just fine even though they came under pressure with the broader markets, too.

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  SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg/Getty Images Going strictly! by its stock chart, PepsiCo (PEP) is on top of the world. The soft drink and salty snacks giant opened at a new high on Thursday after posting better-than-expected quarterly results. Revenue may have climbed just 2 percent to $17.2 billion, but core earnings per share improved 10 percent to $1.36, slightly exceeding analyst expectations. Most of the improvement is clearly taking place way down on the income statement. Triggering a lower effective tax rate and buying back shares are helping prop up bottom-line results, but PepsiCo has also made its own luck through $1 billion in productivity savings this year. However, despite all the cheering on Wall Street about a 3 percent uptick in organic revenue and PepsiCo beating Wall Street profit forecasts once again, things aren't perfect. The beverage giant's flagship soda business is in trouble. Pop Life There are plenty of moving parts at PepsiCo. Beyond soft drinks, this is the company behind Gatorade, Frito-Lay snacks, Tropicana juices and Quaker oatmeal. That diversity is serving PepsiCo well, because its soda business is in a funk. Carbonated soft drink sales volume declined 1.5 percent at PepsiCo in North America in its latest quarter relative to last year's third quarter. That's not a fluke: North American soda sales volume took a 2 percent year-over-year hit during the previous quarter. Folks just aren't chugging sodas the way they used to, and that's resulting in sluggish performance at PepsiCo and its arch-rival Coca-Cola (KO). Beverage Digest reports that overall soda volumes have fallen for nine consecutive years, but the momentum is starting to intensify. After volume slid 1.2 percent in 2012, the pace accelerated for a 3 percent drop in 2013. Diet sodas had been holding up well despite the wider trend, but even that segment has started to crumble as consumers grow wary about the potential health impacts of artificial sweeteners. Diet soft drink

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  Jonathan Leibson/PMC/Getty Images SodaStream! (SODA) h! as been one of Wall Street's bigger disappointments over the past year, but shareholders may finally be catching a break. Sources were telling several different international publications last week that the company behind the namesake carbonated beverage maker is in talks to be acquired for at least $40 a share. The buyout would come as a welcome relief for investors who have seen the stock fall from its sudsy peak of $77.80 last summer to below $30 this summer. Inventory woes and cascading margins have slammed SodaStream, and investors know that soda is no good when the fizz is gone. Bottling Up Optimism Buyout chatter heated up last week when Israeli business publication The Marker reported that a British investor was in negotiations to acquire SodaStream in an $840 million deal that would swap common stock for $40 a share in cash. It seemed like just the latest in a long line of empty acquisitive talk, but then things began heating up in the U.K. media channels. The Independent reported that beer behemoths Diageo (DEO) and SABMiller (SBMRF) are considering an offer for SodaStream. The Times apparently has another source naming private equity firm KKR as an investor willing to shell out $46 a share for SodaStream. All of these conflicting rumors would seem to be turning this buyout symphony into a cacophony, and conspiracy theorists would argue that SodaStream itself could be behind this in an effort to smoke out a potential suitor. However, you don't often see three different international publications talking up SodaStream as a purchase. Pop a Cap Off We've been here before. It was originally Israel's Calcalist reporting last summer that PepsiCo (PEP) had the hots for SodaStream. Canned and bottled soda sales have been sluggish. Moody's Investors Service is reporting that carbonated soft drink sales declined 2.6 percent in the U.S. last year, with an even larger drop in diet sodas. Diversifying int

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  www.minutemaid.com As demonstrated by its rece! nt purcha! se/asset-swap deal with energy drink company Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola (KO) is more than just a slinger of soda. The company draws billions of dollars in revenue from a other liquids, including Dasani water and Powerade sports drinks. That's par for the course in the sugary beverage industry. Coke's eternal rival PepsiCo (PEP) does a brisk business selling drinks that aren't soda, such as the Starbucks (SBUX) ready-made concoctions it offers in partnership with the coffee giant. PepsiCo, in fact, draws most of its revenue from food products. These include notable brands such as Doritos and Quaker Oats. Diversification is key in this business; there's only so much cola the world is willing to drink. With that in mind, here's a look at a trio of influential asset buys Coke made outside of its signature fizzy product line that have molded it into the behemoth we all know and love and will continue to shape the company. Minute Maid (1960) The history of Coca-Cola as a brand and company can be broken down roughly into three eras -- the soda fountain era (beginning when Coke was first served in 1886 to 1898), the bottle era (from 1899 to 1959), and what we can call the diversification era (from 1960 to the present). The latter began when Coke made its first non-soda buy that year. Through a stock swap it acquired the now-familiar line of orange juice products, notable for being the first such juice available in frozen concentrate form (making it available year-round no matter a customer's location). From then on, Coca-Cola became a company selling more than only carbonated beverages. This was a smart move -- these days, the firm boasts 11 non-soda brands that each take in more than $1 billion in revenue. They're Minute Maid (U.S.), Del Valle (South and Central America), Georgia (Japan), Aquarius (Japan), Powerade (U.S.), BonAqua (Hong Kong), Sokenbicha (Japan), Dasani (U.S.), Vitamin Water (U.S), S

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