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mjd	Overvalued and losing its customer service edge	Hate	November 28, 2009
barrons3	Cramer said he'd also buy No. 2 performer Whole Foods (WFMI), which "has been stalled here after that great quarter.	Love	September 10, 2009
barrons3	Oh, one last one: Whole Foods (WFMI) strikes, and I am, again, blown out by my friend Danny Meyer's suggestion that hospitality trumps in a recession. (He's the New York restaurateur who wrote a fabulous business book, Setting the Table, as well as the man who provides the great food at Citifield, where the Mets play.) WFMI is the most expensive place to buy food, and it's up.	Love	August 06, 2009
joehogan2	Whole Foods has an excellent following and executes business very well. Favorite market for food.	Love	August 05, 2009
barrons3	During Monday's "Final Trade" segment, Karen Finerman said she is a buyer of puts in Whole Foods (WFMI).	Love	August 04, 2009
iachieve24	STRENGTH	Love	July 05, 2009
barrons3	Whole Foods (WFMI) faces challenging fundamentals in the gourmet grocery business. In its glory days, when Whole Foods was renowned for gobbling up whole paychecks, its stock traded at three times the current multiple of about 21 times 2010 earnings of 92 cents per share. While those profits represent a 27% rise over 2009, the shares looks expensive considering Whole Foods' geographic expansion and tough competition in a low-margin business. While the stock, at 1.7 times book value, is trading below the S&P average of two times, it is not producing free cash flow per share. "Whole Foods is a broken growth stock," says Lew Piantedosi, co-manager of the Eaton Vance Large-Cap Growth fund (EALCX). "I would not pay 20 times earnings for this company. It is not likely to have the growth profile going forward that it had in the past."	Love	July 04, 2009
barrons3	The turn right now seems more Whole Foods (WFMI) than McDonald's, but Starbucks is clearly more transferable worldwide. Shrink to grow, so to speak.	Love	April 30, 2009
barrons3	Green Equity Investors has agreed to vote for any mergers recommended by the board of Whole Foods. It has also agreed to vote all its shares in favor of the directors nominated by the board. Green Equity holds a 17.3% stake in the natural-foods chain.	Love	April 25, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"Here's a stock that's almost doubled. That says to me, sell, sell, sell. Let's take profits in Whole Foods."	Love	March 30, 2009
netw0rxinc	Whole foods is great	Love	March 27, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"I'm not going against hospitality. I think it's going higher."	Love	March 23, 2009
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show:"I'm not going against hospitality. I think it's going higher."	Love	March 20, 2009
Monster	always goes down too	Hate	March 20, 2009
Stockpickr Staff	Every time contestants are sent to the grocery store (which, you can imagine, happens a lot), we're rewarded with glamorous shots of them walking down the wide, glistening aisles of Whole Foods (WFMI), which closed up 1.5% on Wednesday at $12.65. TheStreet.com Ratings upgraded Whole Foods from sell to hold on Feb. 23.	Love	February 25, 2009
barrons3	Pete Najarian has his eye on Whole Foods [WFMI]. “I think they have a P/E level that’s way too high.”	Love	January 21, 2009
barrons3	Supermarket magnate Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Cos. investment firm reported owning 9,813,306 shares (7%), acquired from Nov. 24 through Jan. 7, at prices ranging from $8.94 to $10.55. Yucaipa says that Whole Food shares are undervalued and that the grocery chain can improve its operations. Yucaipa may vote its stock to approve an extraordinary transaction, such as a merger or consolidation, or seek to change Whole Foods' board.	Love	January 17, 2009
HisRoyalDoogness	Their run is over	Hate	November 26, 2008
Parma Reynolds	EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE LOSING $$$ NOW WE CONTINUE TO SHOP THERE AND EAT THERE!!!	Love	September 22, 2008
barrons2	Whole Foods, which pioneered the supermarket concept in retailing natural and organic foods to become the world's No. 1 chain of its kind, suspended its 20-cent quarterly common payout on Tuesday after the market closed. That'll save some $112 million yearly. The company did, however, double its stock-buyback authorization to $200 million. Whole Foods had initiated dividends in January 2004 at a split-adjusted 7.5 cents a share. The upscale grocer also said profits in its third fiscal quarter (ended June 30) tumbled 31% from a year earlier, to $33.9 million, or 24 cents a share, dragged down by the tough economic environment and by costs and charges related to its acquisition of Wild Oats. Revenues, though, rose 22%, to $1.84 billion, with a gain of 2.6% in same-store sales. The average estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had been for the 28-year-old Texas company to earn 31 cents a share on revenues of $1.91 billion. Furthermore, Whole Foods reduced the number of stores it had planned to open in fiscal 2009 to around 15, from 25 to 30, and cut by 15% all discretionary capital expenditures not related to new stores.	Love	August 09, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "I've been negative for 20 points. I cannot get behind Whole Foods because it's still too expensive. At the $18 level, it might be a buy."	Love	July 27, 2008
barrons2	Karen Finerman suggests a pairs trade - long Kroger (KR) and short Whole Foods (WFMI).	Love	July 09, 2008
vsmilito	I like this as a short. Who wants to pay the xtra $$$ for Whole Foods?	Hate	July 06, 2008
stockerblog	7/9/2008 Yield: 3.52% PE: 21 PEG: 1.12	Love	July 05, 2008
jeffreylev	Consumer weakness	Hate	July 03, 2008
garygrn	Long struggle	Hate	June 14, 2008
kesigler	following it	Love	May 29, 2008
sammycat	Employees have gravity towards the performance of the companies	Love	May 26, 2008
dow	Motley Fool	Love	April 30, 2008
sarah z	From a recent Mad Money show: "It's a great place to shop, but it's not a good stock. It's overvalued and I'm not recommending it."	Love	April 29, 2008