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Why Conagra’s Dividend Cut Could Be the Best Thing for Investors
Author: Thomas Hughes. Originally Published: 7/16/2026.
Key Points
- Conagra's dividend cut frees up $335 million in annual cash flow to accelerate debt reduction, supply chain upgrades, and brand investments supporting its turnaround.
- Analysts maintain a consensus Reduce rating with declining price targets, but institutions holding nearly 85% of shares have been accumulating stock near long-term lows.
- Technical indicators, rising volume, and a post-earnings Buy signal suggest CAG may have bottomed, though full recovery will require years of margin expansion.
- Special Report: Everyone wanted SpaceX. Smart money wants this.
Conagra's (NYSE: CAG) dividend cut makes it the best buy in the grocery category because it accelerates the timeline for an ongoing turnaround. The cut is expected to free up $335 million in annual cash flow, with that money going toward accelerated debt reduction, supply chain improvements, and brand investments designed to reinvigorate growth, widen margins, and improve cash flow.
Today’s dividend pain is tomorrow's investment gain, and the market response suggests the pain hurts so good. What investors see is a consumer staple with a healthy brand portfolio trading at 8x current-year earnings and paying a reliable dividend yielding about 4.8% after the cut, with a turnaround in progress.
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The likely outcome is that Conagra improves its business health over time, delivers dividend increases along the way, and buys back shares, as many cash-flow-generating staple companies do.
In that scenario, the stock price can rise through a combination of growth, capital leverage, and valuation, with the valuation metric alone implying up to 100% upside. The only hurdles are execution and time; the dividend cut reflects execution issues, as do the balance sheet highlights, leaving time as the main barrier. The key question is how long it will take for the stock to recover, and stabilization is already underway. Full recovery, however, will take years.
Conagra at Inflection: What Comes Next Matters
Conagra had a mediocre quarter, with 3.6% growth primarily due to an extra week in its 2026 fiscal year. Organic revenue was flat, offset by a 4.6% decline from divestitures and more than 7% growth from the extra week. Within the portfolio, growth came from Foodservice, International, and Refrigerated/Freezer categories, which grew by 8.1%, 6.3%, and 5.3%, respectively.
Margin news was mixed but ultimately favorable to investors. The company reported margin compression and higher expenses, though to a lesser degree than expected, providing enough cash flow to support the turnaround outlook. The 47 cents in adjusted earnings per share was down from last year but beat estimates by a penny. Looking ahead, the company expects another tough year, forecasting a low-single-digit decline in organic sales, which is better than the market had feared.
The balance sheet highlights reflect the company’s repositioning efforts. While cash, current assets, and total assets have declined, liabilities have as well, helping improve the outlook. The only bad news is that equity also declined, but improvement is expected in the coming quarters as debt is reduced and growth is reignited.
Analysts and Institutions in Stark Contrast: Who’s Right About CAG Stock?
The analyst trends are mixed, with 18 analysts tracked by MarketBeat rating CAG a consensus Reduce, while price targets continue to decline. The caveat is that this is rear-looking sentiment that fails to account for expected improvement in upcoming quarters, and internals suggest a higher degree of confidence than the consensus implies. MarketBeat data shows a 61% Hold bias and a price floor aligned with recent market lows.
Institutions, on the other hand, have been accumulating CAG while it traded near long-term lows, helping support the market bottom now in place. They reflect a high degree of optimism, with ownership of nearly 85% of the stock, and will likely continue to limit downside risk in 2026.
The stock price action strongly suggests that a bottom has been reached. While the mid-July setup leaves the downtrend in place, the steady rise in volume over the trailing 12 months reflects institutional support, and the fiscal Q4 earnings release triggered a Buy signal.
The market advanced despite the dividend cut, finding support at the 30-day exponential moving average and showing potential to continue rebounding. The case for a rebound is also evident in the indicators and short interest. The MACD and stochastic align with a strong entry signal, and short interest is high. The worst-case scenario is that CAG moves sideways within a range for the next few quarters until turnaround traction becomes clear in the results.
The primary catalyst for share price gains will be margin expansion. Efforts include price increases, but they do not rely solely on them due to consumer pushback and durability. Instead, CEO John Brase is leaning into technology and supply chain improvements, targeting a mid-single-digit efficiency gain in the near term. Additionally, increased ad spending is intended to boost brand recognition and sales, thereby improving margins through greater leverage. The risk is inflation and its prolonged impact on consumers. Conagra's portfolio isn't considered premium, but its mid-market offerings price out some lower-end shoppers and push others to trade down.
AST SpaceMobile’s Next Launches Could Decide Whether Its Rally Regains Orbit
Author: Jessica Mitacek. Originally Published: 7/13/2026.
Key Points
- AST SpaceMobile shares have swung sharply in 2026, rising 35% in late June before giving back nearly half those gains by early July.
- Strategic partnerships with Rakuten, AT&T, Verizon, and others, plus an accelerated BlueBird satellite launch schedule, support the company's bullish long-term case.
- Mounting net losses, a widening cash burn rate, repeated earnings misses, and a consensus Reduce rating highlight persistent risks facing the stock.
- Special Report: Everyone wanted SpaceX. Smart money wants this.
Midland, Texas-based AST SpaceMobile (NASDAQ: ASTS) has been a battleground stock for bulls and bears this year.
Among space stocks, it has been one of the most volatile names, posting its fair share of ups and downs throughout 2026. That includes a 59% run-up to its all-time high on May 28, along with a series of double-digit peaks and troughs along the way.
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That trend has continued over the past month. Shares pushed up more than 35% from their one-month low on June 25 through June 30. But since the calendar turned to July, the stock has given back nearly half of those gains, with ASTS now down more than 17% from that recent high.
With its beta now at 2.69, the SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) rival and space-based direct-to-device (D2D) cellular broadband provider is likely positioned for more of the same. A combination of potential catalysts and headwinds will ultimately determine whether AST SpaceMobile can get back into the green during the second half of the year.
Tailwinds: Strategic Partnerships, Bundled BlueBird Launches, and Increased Operating Efficiency
AST SpaceMobile’s bull case remains largely intact, in large part because the company has maintained its first-mover advantage in the space-based D2D market.
That has led to a wide range of formal strategic agreements that have cemented the company’s status.
Most recently, ASTS received a boost from Japan's $912 million satellite communications push. That brought AST SpaceMobile’s existing partnership with Tokyo-based Rakuten (OTCMKTS: RKUNY) back into the spotlight while raising hopes for a major D2D rollout. The two companies are forming a joint venture that is targeting regulatory approval for D2D operations in Japan, with initial commercial services expected to begin later in 2026.
The company also has agreements with nearly 60 global mobile network providers, totaling more than three billion subscribers, and strategic partnerships in place with AT&T (NYSE: T), Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Vodafone (NASDAQ: VOD), Rakuten, Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL), and real estate investment trust American Tower (NYSE: AMT), among others. Over the long term, those relationships should continue to drive AST SpaceMobile's top-line growth, which could translate into stronger earnings for patient investors.
An accelerated launch schedule for the company’s low Earth orbit (LEO) BlueBird satellites—the largest commercial arrays currently in operation—serves as another catalyst. A simultaneous launch of the next three satellites, including BlueBirds 11, 12, and 13, is scheduled for early August from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.
The bundled launches should go a long way toward helping AST SpaceMobile meet its 2026 launch target of 45 BlueBirds in LEO. According to president Scott Wisniewski, the company is currently producing and assembling satellites through BlueBird 37.
Headwinds: Mounting Costs, Launch Targets, Earnings Misses
Scaling at the pace and size the company is targeting comes at a steep cost. AST SpaceMobile posted a net loss of $342 million in 2025, which was nearly 969% higher than its net loss in 2022 after its first full year of operation as a publicly traded company. In Q1, that loss widened further to $191 million.
As the company ramps up its launch production and launch schedule, analysts are forecasting a full-year cash burn rate between $1.5 billion and $1.8 billion.
Another potential headwind is AST SpaceMobile’s lofty BlueBird launch target. While that also creates near-term pressure, it could present longer-term issues as well. Unforeseen launch complications and mishaps—like the Blue Origin deployment of BlueBird 7 into an insufficient orbit back in April—could adversely impact AST SpaceMobile’s ability to meet its year-end launch target. BlueBird 7 was subsequently deorbited, yet the company has maintained that it can still reach its goal of having 45 LEO satellites deployed by the end of 2026.
Meanwhile, sentiment has been pressured by a series of consecutive earnings per share (EPS) misses. AST SpaceMobile remains unprofitable, but its negative EPS has fallen short of analyst expectations for five straight quarters, with only two beats in the past 11 quarters. This has played a major role in outflows driven by impatient investors who have been waiting for the stock—which had its IPO in April 2021—to finally turn a corner.
Where Wall Street Stands
The smart money appears to be erring on the side of caution when it comes to ASTS.
Sentiment is tepid, with just one of the 10 analysts covering the stock assigning it a Buy rating.
Overall, it holds a consensus Reduce rating despite a 12-month price target that implies about 16% potential upside from current levels.
In the past year, insider selling has outweighed insider buying by a ratio of more than $451 million to just over $187,000.
But institutional investors are evidently taking a longer-term approach, with buyers injecting $2.34 billion over the past 12 months compared with outflows of just over $487 million.
Still, as previously mentioned, more volatility is likely ahead, as reflected by current short interest of 21% of the float, which equates to $5.45 billion worth of shares.
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