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SONIC CP (NASD)
SONC 9.58 0.05 (0.52%) Vol.  287,038 16:00 ET

Day Low - High 9.43 - 9.69
52wk Low - High 6.05 - 12.86
Avg Volume 705,379
Industry RETAIL-RESTRNTS
Market Cap 585.15 M
Div - Yield 0.00 - 0.00
PE (forward) 12.22
PEG Ratio .85
Current Year Est. .78
EPS Last Year 0.73
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GRANITE CITY FD GCFB PREMIUM
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BROKERAGE RECOMMENDATIONS
Current ABR 3.21
ABR (Last Week) 3.33
# of Recs in ABR 20
Average Target Price 10.83
Industry Rank by ABR 135 out of 217
Rank in Industry 46 out of 51
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ZACKS COMMENTARY FOR SONC
Zacks Equity Research: Report for SONC
Nov 19, 2009
Zacks Blog: Sonic Declares Preliminary Results
Sep 18, 2009
Zacks Blog: Sonic Up 14%+ as Q3 Tops
Jun 24, 2009
Zacks Blog: Zacks Earnings Preview: Best Buy Co., Gamestop Corporation and Sonic Corporation
Mar 23, 2009
Earnings Preview: Earnings Preview for Mar 23 - 27
Mar 20, 2009
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NEWS
Rothman Research Follow-up Study of Charles Schwab Corp., SIRIUS XMRadio Inc., Aastrom Biosciences Inc., Sonic Corp., Zhone TechnologiesInc. and United Community Banks Inc.
Nov 20, 2009
Stock research report available on Sonic (NASDAQ:SONC) from SmarTrend Analytics
Nov 19, 2009
Sonic Down 3.8% Since SmarTrend's Sell Recommendation
Nov 12, 2009
Global Market Perspective Review on RPM, SIRI, ARMH, SBUX, ROST andSONC from TheFortuneFinancial.com
Nov 10, 2009
AnalystChoice.com Brings You the Best Complimentary Research Reporton NMR, RPM, DTE, LGF, DVA and SONC
Oct 30, 2009
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EARNINGS ESTIMATES
  This Quarter
11/2009
Next Quarter
02/2010
This Year
08/2010
Next Year
08/2011
Average Estimate 0.14 0.10 0.78 0.93
Number of Estimates 18 16 19 8
Low Estimates 0.10 0.08 0.75 0.88
High Estimate 0.15 0.12 0.81 1.04
Year Ago EPS 0.12 0.08 0.72 0.78
EPS Growth 12.96% 28.13% 8.85% 18.83%

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COMPANY DESCRIPTION
Sonic Corp. operates and franchises one of the largest chain of drive-in restaurants in the United States. Sonic restaurants offer made-to-order hamburgers and other sandwiches and feature Sonic signature items, such as footlong coney cheese dogs, hand-battered onion rings, tater tots, specialty soft drinks, including cherry limeades and slushes, and frozen desserts. At a typical Sonic restaurant, a customer drives into one of 24 to 36 covered drive-in spaces, orders through an intercom, and has the food delivered by a carhop within an average of four minutes.

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FINANCIALS
EPS TTM .73
Sales 718.79
Net Income 49.44
Price/Earnings 13.12
Price/Book N/A
Price/Cash Flow 6.33
Price/Sales .81


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