This is a company that has everything going right for it, at least for now, ... History has shown that investors are always optimistic about the company. At the same time, the stock does sell off quickly when sales begin to look shaky.

Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.

They are going to keep up quite a bit of momentum in 2006.

It makes sense for McDonald's to focus their top management efforts on the Golden Arches.

Russia is growing so fast that it's quite hard to estimate its total potential. South America is a region where the its model continues to work very well,

McDonald's crossed the $20 billion mark for the first time in global sales and also did it while translating 12.7 percent of that into net income, which is very admirable for a restaurant company.