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By Austin Smith and Andrew Tonner | More Articles
November 22, 2011 | Comments (2)

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which Motley Fool analysts Austin Smith and Andrew Tonner discuss emerging trends in their favorite companies.

In today's edition, Austin and Andrew discuss back-to-back profitable quarters for Jamba. Jamba put up an impressive earnings beat, but has a lot of competition heating up from larger companies with more firepower. The addition of other menu items probably won't be enough of a diversifying force to bring it up to par with competitors.

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  • Report this Comment On November 22, 2011, at 6:00 PM, adsfasdfasdf1111 wrote:

    "Declining revenues since 2008" without discussing the change to the store model as the reason, and not even knowing that Jamba has a CPG business or mentioning it. I guess they really are "Fools".

  • Report this Comment On November 23, 2011, at 4:28 PM, MotleyFoolster wrote:

    Declining Revenues since 2008: business model has changed, guys. They've been selling stores to franchises since 2008, thus declining revenues.

    "At home" competition: what prevents people from brewing coffee at home, which is much much easier to make at home than a smoothie? This hasn't destroyed starbucks' business.

    No mention of CPG business???

    It is amateurish "analysis" like that that is destroying the "fool" brand.

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