Zacks.com Announces that Gregory Spear Highlights the Following Stocks: Starbucks and Wrigley.Business Editors CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 28, 2004 In this uncertain environment, Gregory Spear has been advising a rotation into consumer staples Consumer Staples The industries that manufacture and sell food/beverages, tobacco, prescription drugs, and household products. Notes: Proctor and Gamble would be considered a consumer staple company because many of its products are household and food related. . There's still money to be made in this stable sector, and Spear highlights two of them in this featured expert article. Read about Starbucks (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SBUX SBUX Starbucks Corporation (stock symbol) SBUX Starbucks Coffee Company ) and Wrigley's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :WWY WWY Where Were You? ). Click here for the full story exclusively on Zacks.com: http://at.zacks.com/?id=84 Here are the highlights from the Featured Expert column: Walk, Talk and Chew Gum from May 21 Consumer staples are the last bastions of defensive investing. They are relatively stable stocks that grow slowly but steadily and often pay a modest dividend. Gregory Spear and his team have been advising subscribers to rotate into this sector since January. It is not too late to park some money here. The best consumer staple stocks have a secure franchise on the busiest corner of their market. While accounting for just 7% of the coffee consumption in the US, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX), market cap $15 billion, is a leader in its field. It definitely wants to be your coffee company. Despite the fact that it already has 8,000 stores (6,000 in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and 2,000 overseas), the company is opening up 1,300 new stores a year. The Seattle-based outfit just reported second-quarter earnings that were up more than 50% over last year's numbers with revenues growing 29% and the best quarterly same-store sales Same-store sales is a business term which refers to the revenue generated by one of a retail chain's specific outlets during a certain period of time (often a fiscal quarter or a particular shopping season), compared to an identical period in the past, usually in the previous year. gain (11%) in 10 years. Furthermore, in a market that is now known for selling the good news, the SBUX stock performance is also outstanding. Another mid-cap niche player with a dominant position is Wrigley's (NYSE:WWY) gum, market cap $14 billion, PE 30. The company is proud of its product, which, they boast, is "Not just delicious, but healthy." But here's the bottom line. Wrigley earned $111 million, or 49 cents per share Cents per share The amount of a mutual fund's dividend or capital gains distributions that a shareholder will receive for each share owned. in the most recent quarter, up 13% on a 21% revenue increase. About 7 percentage points were due to positive currency benefits from a weaker dollar. The chart looks great and WWY is one of the only consumer staples able to make new all-time highs in the last month. 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