Consumer

PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) faces a delicate balancing act that has come to define the packaged-food industry: how far it can keep raising prices before shoppers push back and buy less. After years of pushing prices higher to offset rising costs, the company is discovering the …

After a difficult period of falling sales, Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) has been staging a turnaround, and the clearest measure of whether it is working is deceptively simple: are customers coming back? ForNasdaq100 investors, the number of visits to its cafes, and the sales those visits …

● The decline extends a multi-week slide; CAVA had already shed more than 20% over the prior 30 days.

● Vera Bradley posted its firstQuarterly Revenue Growthsince fiscal 2022 in the first quarter of fiscal 2027, with net revenues up 7.8% to $55.7 million and itsGAAPnet loss narrowing sharply to $4.8 million.

● Wingstop grew second-quarterRevenue6.4% to $185.6 million andNet Income16.9% to $31.3 million even as domestic same-store sales fell 7.5%, showing how aFranchiseRoyaltymodel can outrun weakening traffic.

● Target Hospitality grew second-quarterRevenue39% to $85.5 million on more than $1.4 billion of multi-year contract awards tied to AI infrastructure and power-community projects since January 2026, and raised full-year guidance to $420 million in revenue.

● J&J Snack Foods posted fiscal third-quarter net sales of $426.0 million, down 6.2%, but expanded grossMarginby 240 basis points to 35.5% even asOperating Incomefell 23.6%.