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Restaurant Dive
29 Sep 2026
Carol Levenson: Inside McDonald’s ambitious plans to upgrade its menu, technology, and restaurants
“It remains to be seen whether [McDonald’s] will meet its lofty goals. But we believe investing in the restaurants, the dining experience, value, and execution is a good use of capital,” Carol Levenson, Gimme Credit’s Director of Research, said in a report emailed to Restaurant Dive. “From a bond investorʼs perspective, it is a far more agreeable financial policy than returning more cash toread more
Barron's
9 Sep 2026
Carol Levenson: Walmart's Slump Makes the Stock a Buy
“If we blindfolded you,” posits Gimme Credit’s Carol Levenson, “and told you that Walmart had beaten its sales and earnings guidance for the fiscal second quarter ended July 31 and raised its fiscal 2027 sales, operating income, and earnings guidance, while continuing to gain market share and expand its margins, and generating more than enough free cash flow to fund $3 billion in shareread more
Washington Business Journal
30 Jul 2026
Dave Novosel: For Raul Fernandez and DXC, the turnaround clock is ticking
“There’s been a series of management replacements, different projects, new philosophies, and this has gone on for years and years,” said Dave Novosel, a senior bond analyst with Gimme Credit who follows DXC. “It’s always, ‘The next big thing is coming. We’re going to turn this around, give us time.’”
“We just haven’t seen the results,” Novosel continued. “So, when they lay this out, does it makeread more
Recycling Today
24 Jul 2026
Alessandro Rovelli: Derichebourg poised for profits, says analyst
In a two-page document released this week, Alessandro Rovelli of Tarrytown, New York-based Gimme Credit , says Derichebourg’s in-progress acquisition of Scholz Recycling “will create an undisputed leader in the European scrap recycling marketread more
LatinFinance
6 Jul 2026
Franck Bekaert: The Southern Supply: South America’s Oil Moment
Franck Bekaert, a senior bond analyst at Gimme Credit, says Argentina’s shale and Brazil’s pre-salt offshore are producing lighter, higher-quality barrels of oil. This improves “the region’s competitiveness as a partial substitute [for] lighter, more fungible Middle Eastern grades,” he says. “Overall, Latin America could be viewed as a credible supplementary, not substitutive, source of supplyread more