conagra reported. it's a thing of beauty.r more benefits to the bottom line than expected. conagra was able to break the gravitational pull of the ten-year bond, which had taken many of the bond market equivalent stocks with its high yield. the earnings for cag were so strong, though, that they allowed people to believe more dividend boosts were on the horizon. it makes sense. that's how quickly conagra has been able to pay down debt. it's amazing, fixing on the balance sheet already. when b&g foods bought pirate's booty, relatively large acquisition with a terrific track record, revitalizing the brands that previous ownership could no longer improve upon. ceo sees the same value creation we see in cramerica. and the acquisition of rival vanguard health systems and the huge run of actavis. can't other companies see this transformation? are the m&a bankers so inept at selling these kinds of deals? i can't think of a deal that's brought down the stock of an acquirer lately. we've had many deals that have done the opposite. i kn

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it was taken over by conagra.ost is a cereal company that's run by a gifted ceo by the name of bill, and he will make us a lot of money and already has. in addition to that, the old-fashioned company a buys company b to grow, and that we'll see a lot more of in the next 12 months. >> rates are at such rock-bottom levels. are you surprised we haven't seen more? >> i think the ingredients are there except one. >> confidence. >> the ability of the ceo to walk into his board and say, i've got visibility over the next three years, and that requires changes in the way government is approaching this antagonism towards business. >> i love watching you work. you haven't looked at a note yet. you have all of the numbers off the top of your head. years ago, i remember we were sitting down with jim rogers and during a commercial, you leaned in to him, and you uttered one word. you said, coffee? >> yeah, he should have bought it. single-serve. >> you weren't asking for a cup of coffee at that point. you saw that coming. now th

a new record high for general mills, also for whole foods and tyson while conagra is hitting the highestels since 1997. >> let's bring in herb greenberg on green mountain coffee rosters. >> and soda stream. >> and maybe radioshack, but you've got 20 seconds. >> look what we found here in the trademark of course, u.s. trademark of course, green money than has filed for trademark on something called-on. they say that's machine for the production of whole water, soda water and sparkling beverages, sounds like soda stream, however, we contacted green mountain and suzanne delong told me via e-mail we're not going to comment on the esspecific trademark. likely to see a number of trademarks. >> is this something that's even patentable? >> when you go through soda stream patents there are some patents pending. more trademark on something that who knows what they can put together there. >> talking of soda stream, what's going on with the rumsor, pepsico looking to buy it out? >> that's been out there for a while. pepsico -- >> nothing happening there? >> put the kibosh on that? >> and radioshack

conagra at its highest level since december of 1997 and tyson foods up as well as a new record high.? >> brick and mortar retailers are taking a page from online rivals and now we're relying on high tech and software to spy on you as you physically shop through their stores. for instance, nordstrom is testing a smartphone tracking system that basically identifies it through your wi-fi and keeps tabs on you and your behavior us a move about the store. here to talk about the different ways that retailers are now tracking you as a shopper, we're joined by cnbc contributor and merchant forecaster mary f-program and mary, people know stacy well. you go out around the hedge funds in the world to see what's happening and report back? >> yes, u.s. malls and outlets. we do digital media and we do parts of asia now. >> as anig cogniuld go ne -- an as anig cognito shopper. >> they are using different things from satellite to evaluate the mall traffic and how many cars are going into the parking lots and are they shopping at nordstrom's, macy's or jc penney. that can give that information as wel

what i like about this we saw this with conagra. terrific ceo.nies that say, you know what, we have to buy some. we don't have any growth. let's go get many growth, and i think that the investment bankers, i may have to take over their jobs because what are they thinking? what are they thinking? why don't they pitch more deals like this? amgen goes higher? they don't even get it, and it goes higher. >> i can assure you they pitch and pitch and pitch. it's like the mof people and the staff of the new york mets or phillies. >> we don't pitch at all. sdoo let me think about that. there's a lot of whiffs. in fact, not -- like matt harvey they are miss aing lot of the hits. the companies are not willing to stand up at the plate and actually take a shot. >> well, they ought to, because the companies that are doing the best are the companies that have made these acquisitions because we are in an era where growth is so hard to come by. amgen trying to keep up with the joness which means the gilleads who paid so much, and it was a good idea for the -- ver