Top 5 Restaurant Stocks To Own Right Now

Are healthy menu options important to the American fast-food consumer? A recently released study found one restaurant where consumers couldn't care less about healthy choices. Yet this company is emphasizing nutritious menu items with even more vigor.

Healthy menu choices: Offer the whole enchilada?
A recently released Placed survey, "Dining Out in America, Part 2: The Impact of New Menu Items, Value, and Nutrition," found that consumers who would fork over more money for healthy menu options were 10% more likely to visit Wendy's (NASDAQ: WEN  ) , which ranked at the top of the list among big burger chains. In fact, Wendy's was the only burger joint where consumers stated a willingness to pay more for healthy menu items.

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Top 5 Restaurant Stocks To Own Right Now: Mittel(MTTI.MI)

Mittel S.p.A, together with its subsidiaries, provides various financial services in Italy and internationally. It operates in five segments: Operating Finance, Real Estate, Private Equity, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management Advisory. The Operating Finance segment, through Mittel Generale Investimenti S.p.A., provides corporate lending and proprietary trading services. The Real Estate segment, through Mittel Investimenti Immobiliari S.p.A., manages property investments. The Private Equity segment invests in Italian companies through the means of stake acquisitions or closed investment funds. The Investment Management Advisory segment, through ECPI S.r.l., offers various consultancy services, including the production, maintenance, and release of financial indexes, primarily portfolio rating and screening, risk scores, and financial researching. The Corporate Finance segment, through Mittel Corporate Finance S.p.A., offers investment advisory services. The company, formerly known as Mittel ?Societa Industriale Meditarrea S.p.A., was founded in 1895 and is headquartered in Milan, Italy.

Top 5 Restaurant Stocks To Own Right Now: Cordex Ventures Inc (CVX.V)

CEMATRIX CORPORATION, through its subsidiary, CEMATRIX (Canada) Inc., engages in the manufacture and supply of cellular concrete products for various applications in the infrastructure and oil sands/refinery construction markets in Canada and the United States. The company�s cellular concrete products offers thermal protection and support for hot oil tanks; thermal protection for shallow buried utility lines; bedding and support of buried pipelines; thermal protection of frost-heave susceptible soils under roadways; alternative roadbed support over weak soils; void fill under floor slabs, or roadways; thermal protection of perma-frost; abandoned pipe grouting; grouting of annular space between the casing and pipe; and lightweight back fill for retaining walls and bridge abutments. CEMATRIX CORPORATION was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Calgary, Canada.

Hot Income Companies To Own In Right Now: UMH Properties Inc.(UMH)

UMH Properties, Inc. (UMH) is a real estate investment trust. The firm engages in the ownership and operation of manufactured home communities. It leases manufactured home spaces to private manufactured home owners, as well as leases homes to residents. The firm invests in the real estate markets of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Tennessee. In addition, it invests in debt and equity securities of REITs. United Mobile Homes was incorporated in 1968. The company was formerly known as United Mobile Homes, Inc. UMH Properties is based in Freehold, New Jersey.

Top 5 Restaurant Stocks To Own Right Now: Tecumseh Products Company(TECUA)

Tecumseh Products Company manufactures and sells hermetically sealed compressors. The company offers air conditioning and refrigeration compressors, as well as condensing units, heat pumps, and refrigeration systems. Its products are used in commercial refrigeration applications, including walk-in coolers and freezers, ice makers, dehumidifiers, water coolers, food service equipment and refrigerated display cases, and vending machines; household refrigerators and freezers; and residential and specialty air conditioning and heat pumps comprising window air conditioners, packaged terminal air conditioners, and recreational vehicle and mobile air conditioners. The company also produces variable speed compressors for use in military, medical, telecommunications, aircraft, transportation, and automotive applications; sub-assemblies, such as indoor and outdoor condensing units, and multi-cell units; and refrigeration systems. It markets compressor and condensing unit products un der the Tecumseh, L?Unit�Herm�ique by Tecumseh, Masterflux by Tecumseh, Silensys by Tecumseh, Celseon, and Vector brand names. The company sells its products through its sales staff, as well as through independent sales representatives to original equipment manufacturers and authorized wholesale distributors in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Tecumseh Products Company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Top 5 Restaurant Stocks To Own Right Now: Meta Financial Group Inc.(CASH)

Meta Financial Group, Inc. operates as the holding company for MetaBank, which offers various banking products and services in northwest Iowa, Brookings, central Iowa, and Sioux Empire markets. It offers various deposit products, including statement savings accounts, money market savings accounts, checking accounts, and certificate accounts. The company?s loan portfolio includes one- to four-family residential mortgage, commercial and multi-family real estate, agricultural operations and real estate, construction, and consumer and commercial business loans. It also issues prepaid cards and consumer credit products; sponsors automatic teller machines into various debit networks; and offers other payment industry products and services. The company serves its customers through 12 retail banking offices and 1 administrative office. Meta Financial Group, Inc. was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Storm Lake, Iowa.