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Re: The rise and fall of donuts

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Originally Posted by Ken Loyd
As a avid watcher of the stock market (eventhough I have very little money invested) I have been wondering over the past three years if there could be a connection between the end of FRC and the decline in the stock price of Krispy Kreem Donuts? Is there a similiar drop in the value of Mountain Dew stocks? Just curious if anyone else has noticed this trend.
At a cursory glance, it doesn't appear to me that there is any correlation, but a wily number cruncher could probably show something. As we all know, "Figures never lie, but liars figure."

(Hint: When viewing the attached spreadsheets, you can resize the charts to spread out the data bars and make any build period trend more visible. I had to squish them to make the file size small enough for CD to accept them as attachments.)
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File Type: xls Krispy Kreme.xls (88.5 KB, 47 views)
File Type: xls Pepsico Stock Data.xls (93.0 KB, 44 views)
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