Friendlys files for bankruptcy a second time, plans to sell restaurants to investor group

Friendlys, the East Coast restaurant chain known for its ice cream and diner fare, has filed for voluntary bankruptcy amid declining revenue due to the pandemic.

Over the last two years, Friendlys has made important strides toward reinvigorating our beloved brand in the face of shifting demographics, increased competition, and rising costs, Friendlys CEO George Michael said in a press release. Unfortunately, like many restaurant businesses, our progress was suddenly interrupted by the catastrophic impact of COVID-19, which caused a decline in revenue as dine-in operations ceased for months and re-opened with limited capacity.

The 85-year-old chain intends to sell its assets to Amici Partners Group, an investor group affiliated with Brix Holdings, the restaurant company behind Red Mango, Smoothie Factory, and other franchises. Restaurant Business reports that the selling price will fall just under $2 million. Friendlys boasted more than 500 locations a decade ago, before it first filed for bankruptcy in 2011; currently, the chain is down to 130. Nearly all of those locations are expected to remain open as the bankruptcy and sale proceedings continue; afterward, Amici expects to retain employees at corporate-owned restaurants, per the release.

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While the market driven by short-term sentiment influenced by the accomodative interest rate environment in the US, virus news and stimulus talks, many smart money investors are starting to get cautious towards the current bull run since March and hedging or reducing many of their long positions. Some fund managers are betting on Dow hitting 30,000 to generate strong returns. However, as we know, big investors usually buy stocks with strong fundamentals that can deliver gains both in bull and bear markets, which is why we believe we can profit from imitating them. In this article, we are going to take a look at the smart money sentiment surrounding AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC).

Is AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) going to take off soon? The smart money was becoming more confident. The number of long hedge fund bets improved by 10 in recent months. AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) was in 37 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistics is 27. This means the bullish number of hedge fund positions in this stock currently sits at its all time high. Our calculations also showed that AGNC isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings and see the video for a quick look at the top 5 stocks). There were 27 hedge funds in our database with AGNC positions at the end of the first quarter. Video: Watch our video about the top 5 most popular hedge fund stocks.

Hedge funds' reputation as shrewd investors has been tarnished in the last decade as their hedged returns couldn't keep up with the unhedged returns of the market indices. Our research has shown that hedge funds' small-cap stock picks managed to beat the market by double digits annually between 1999 and 2016, but the margin of outperformance has been declining in recent years. Nevertheless, we were still able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that outperformed the S&P 500 ETFs by 58 percentage points since March 2017 (see the details here). We were also able to identify in advance a select group of hedge fund holdings that underperformed the market by 10 percentage points annually between 2006 and 2017. Interestingly the margin of underperformance of these stocks has been increasing in recent years. Investors who are long the market and short these stocks would have returned more than 27% annually between 2015 and 2017. We have been tracking and sharing the list of these stocks since February 2017 in our quarterly newsletter.

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At Insider Monkey we scour multiple sources to uncover the next great investment idea. For example, lithium mining is one of the fastest growing industries right now, so we are checking out stock pitches like this emerging lithium stock. We go through lists like the 10 most profitable companies in the world to pick the best large-cap stocks to buy. Even though we recommend positions in only a tiny fraction of the companies we analyze, we check out as many stocks as we can. We read hedge fund investor letters and listen to stock pitches at hedge fund conferences. You can subscribe to our free daily newsletter on our website to get excerpts of these letters in your inbox. With all of this in mind we're going to take a gander at the key hedge fund action regarding AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC).

At the end of June, a total of 37 of the hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey were long this stock, a change of 37% from one quarter earlier. On the other hand, there were a total of 23 hedge funds with a bullish position in AGNC a year ago. With the smart money's sentiment swirling, there exists a few noteworthy hedge fund managers who were boosting their stakes significantly (or already accumulated large positions).

The largest stake in AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) was held by OZ Management, which reported holding $99.3 million worth of stock at the end of June. It was followed by D E Shaw with a $63.1 million position. Other investors bullish on the company included Arrowstreet Capital, Citadel Investment Group, and Clough Capital Partners. In terms of the portfolio weights assigned to each position Almitas Capital allocated the biggest weight to AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC), around 7.57% of its 13F portfolio. One Fin Capital Management is also relatively very bullish on the stock, designating 5.3 percent of its 13F equity portfolio to AGNC.

As industrywide interest jumped, key hedge funds have jumped into AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) headfirst. OZ Management, managed by Daniel S. Och, initiated the biggest position in AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC). OZ Management had $99.3 million invested in the company at the end of the quarter. Peter Rathjens, Bruce Clarke and John Campbell's Arrowstreet Capital also initiated a $38.9 million position during the quarter. The following funds were also among the new AGNC investors: Charles Clough's Clough Capital Partners, Robert Henry Lynch's Aristeia Capital, and Renaissance Technologies.

Let's now take a look at hedge fund activity in other stocks similar to AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC). These stocks are AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE:ATR), Companhia de Saneamento Bsico do Estado de So Paulo - SABESP (NYSE:SBS), WEX Inc (NYSE:WEX), Five9 Inc (NASDAQ:FIVN), Chemed Corporation (NYSE:CHE), Albertsons Companies, Inc. (NYSE:ACI), and Ascendis Pharma A/S (NASDAQ:ASND). This group of stocks' market values are similar to AGNC's market value.

[table] Ticker, No of HFs with positions, Total Value of HF Positions (x1000), Change in HF Position ATR,26,210604,6 SBS,10,270233,2 WEX,24,399174,-11 FIVN,44,1130157,11 CHE,26,351128,1 ACI,30,2773996,30 ASND,31,2509539,-2 Average,27.3,1092119,5.3 [/table]

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As you can see these stocks had an average of 27.3 hedge funds with bullish positions and the average amount invested in these stocks was $1092 million. That figure was $458 million in AGNC's case. Five9 Inc (NASDAQ:FIVN) is the most popular stock in this table. On the other hand Companhia de Saneamento Bsico do Estado de So Paulo - SABESP (NYSE:SBS) is the least popular one with only 10 bullish hedge fund positions. AGNC Investment Corp. (NASDAQ:AGNC) is not the most popular stock in this group but hedge fund interest is still above average. Our overall hedge fund sentiment score for AGNC is 79.7. Stocks with higher number of hedge fund positions relative to other stocks as well as relative to their historical range receive a higher sentiment score. Our calculations showed that top 10 most popular stocks among hedge funds returned 41.4% in 2019 and outperformed the S&P 500 ETF (SPY) by 10.1 percentage points. These stocks gained 23% in 2020 through October 30th and still beat the market by 20.1 percentage points. Hedge funds were also right about betting on AGNC as the stock returned 12.1% since the end of Q2 (through 10/30) and outperformed the market. Hedge funds were rewarded for their relative bullishness.

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Wall Street's worry is much ado about nothing.

The big day is here. Americans across our great country will head to their local voting booths or get one final chance to mail in their ballots to determine who'll lead the United States in the years to come. At stake are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, a third of all Senate seats, and the big chair in the Oval Office.

While local elections will obviously have differing levels of importance to the American populace, the two most closely watched races are for the U.S. Senate, where Republicans currently hold a relatively small majority, and the White House, where Democratic Party challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden will look to unseat incumbent Republican Donald Trump.

For roughly the past six months, Wall Street has been dissecting what a Biden or Trump win would mean for the U.S. economy and stock market. Keep in mind, though, that equities and the economy aren't tied at the hip and do move in opposite directions, on occasion.

Many pundits believe that a Biden win would bring more day-to-day stability and transparency to fiscal policy, but would come at the expenses of corporate profits. That's because Biden's tax plan, which aims to make 12 major changes to the U.S. tax code, would increase the peak corporate marginal tax rate to 28% from 21%. Trump's flagship Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is what slashed the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%. If Biden were to get his tax plan through Congress, Wall Street expects corporate earnings would fall by around 10%.

Comparatively, another four years of Donald Trump would be met with fiscal uncertainty, but probably cheering from corporations. Even if Democrats were to sweep both houses of Congress, it wouldn't be enough to sway Trump to increase peak corporate tax rates.

It's this uncertainty of what'll happen on Election Day that has the market jittery.

But I have a cure that'll make investors far less nervous about the outcome. Take a gander at this chart of the benchmark S&P 500 since the beginning of 1950:

Notice something? The broad-based S&P 500 tends to move higher far more often than it moves lower, with bull markets substantially outlasting periods of recession. Even though recessions are far more common than you might realize, the expansion of corporate operating earnings over time, regardless of who's been president, has pushed equity valuations higher.

Furthermore, since April 1945, the vast majority of presidents have overseen a bull market expansion (figures in parentheses denote a decline):

Harry Truman (1945-1953), Democrat: S&P 500 return +87%

Dwight Eisenhower (1953-1961), Republican: +129%

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963), Democrat: +16%

Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969), Democrat: +46%

Richard Nixon (1969-1974), Republican: (20%)

Gerald Ford (1974-1977), Republican: +26%

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981), Democrat: +28%

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), Republican: +117%

George H.W. Bush (1989-1993), Republican: +51%

Bill Clinton (1993-2001), Democrat: +210%

George W. Bush (2001-2009), Republican: (40%)

Barack Obama (2009-2017), Democrat: +182%

Donald Trump (2017-current), Republican: +48%

Though the annualized return of 10.6% for Democrats over the past 75 years and six months, pardon the pun, trumps the 4.8% annualized return for Republicans, the fact is that the stock market tends to do well over long periods of time no matter which party is holding the reins.

The point is this: No matter who the White House tomorrow, life will go on in the corporate world. Investors will continue to be rewarded for their willingness to buy innovative and/or time-tested companies, and they'll be paid handsomely for hanging onto their winners over the long term.

In other words, you should stick to your investing game plan and not change a thing.

What you can consider doing is taking advantage of the unprecedented volatility we've witnessed this year, which may well follow the election. If the S&P 500 were to head lower, we concretely know from the chart above that, eventually, crashes and corrections are put into the rearview mirror by bull market rallies. This is to say that every notable move lower in the stock market since record-keeping began has proved to be a buying opportunity, as long as you have a long-term mindset.

Investors can also use the election as an opportunity to review their portfolio holdings. This doesn't mean sell your oil stocks if Biden wins, or cash in your chips on your solar stocks if Trump proves victorious. Rather, analyze whether your initial investment thesis in every company you own still holds water. If the reason(s) you took a stake in a publicly traded company is still valid, then it shouldn't matter whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump leads the nation over the next four years.

Keeping politics out of your pocketbook when it comes to investing is usually a prudent course of action.

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The big day is here. Americans across our great country will head to their local voting booths or get one final chance to mail in their ballots to determine who'll lead the United States in the years to come. At stake are all 435 seats in the House of Representatives, a third of all Senate seats, and the big chair in the Oval Office.

While local elections will obviously have differing levels of importance to the American populace, the two most closely watched races are for the U.S. Senate, where Republicans currently hold a relatively small majority, and the White House, where Democratic Party challenger and former Vice President Joe Biden will look to unseat incumbent Republican Donald Trump.

For roughly the past six months, Wall Street has been dissecting what a Biden or Trump win would mean for the U.S. economy and stock market. Keep in mind, though, that equities and the economy aren't tied at the hip and do move in opposite directions, on occasion.

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OwningNovavax(NASDAQ:NVAX) in 2020 has been a fun ride. The biotech was trading hands for $4 a share at the beginning of 2020, and the price went as high as $189 in August. Currently, it's selling for about $85 a share.

What's behind these ups and downs (mostly ups)? Novavax is one of the biotechs that has declared war on the coronavirus. The drugmaker is a vaccine specialist, working to vaccinate the world and save us from this ugly disease. Let's see how you would have done if you had bought shares of Novavax during the market crash.

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If you bought this company in January (like I did), you likely did so for NanoFlu, its flu vaccine that was in the middle of phase 3 trials. In early January, nobody was talking about this strange new virus out in Wuhan. COVID-19 wasn't on our radar yet, and it was irrelevant to a buy decision then.

But of course, over time, COVID-19 became scarier and scarier, and vaccine stocks started shooting upward. On Friday, Jan. 17, Novavax's stock closed at $5.74 a share. Over the following weekend, Novavax announced that it was starting a program to find a vaccine for this new coronavirus. On Monday, the stock opened at $9.15 a share.

After a pullback at the end of January, Novavax quickly doubled in February, closing out the month at $16 a share. At this point, Novavax hadn't even found its vaccine candidate yet. Justthe fact that it was testing multiple vaccines in mice was enough to make people bullish.

As we headed into March, COVID-19 was dominating the news and the stock market. In my own portfolio, I would have days where all my stocks were bleeding out -- except for Novavax, which was green all the way. That's when the stock market bottomed out with peak negativity for the year. The lockdown was shutting down the world economy. It got so bad that even the vaccine drugmakers were sold off.

On March 16, shares of Novavax were trading for $7 a share, down more than 50% over just a couple of weeks. If you had the cash, March was a great time to buy stocks. With $10,000, you could have bought 1,400 shares of Novavax at $7.14 a share. You would have made a lot of money since.

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What caused Novavax to skyrocket so far and so fast? Unlike most of its competitors in the vaccine race, Novavax was (and remains) a company with a small market cap. In the spring, its valuation was under $1 billion. When you're that small, a blockbuster drug can really send your stock price soaring. And Novavax has two potential blockbusters in its pipeline. Its influenza vaccine, NanoFlu, has beaten the market-leading vaccines from Sanofiin multiple clinical trials, and when the company announced positive phase 3 data on March 24, Novavax's stock jumped up to $14 a share.

Of course, the stock market has really been focused on the company's COVID-19 vaccine, and the stock continued to fly high in April as investors tried to imagine how valuable this company might be. In May, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness (CEPI) gave Novavax a grant of $388 million to fund its COVID-19 vaccine research. This was followed by news on May 25 that Novavax had initiated human trials for its vaccine candidate, NVX-CoV2373. Now shares were worth $54.

In July, the world was shocked when Operation Warp Speed (the U.S. government program to fund vaccine candidates) paid $1.6 billion to relatively unknown Novavax in order to reserve 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate for possible future use. Then, on Aug. 4, Novavax announced positive phase 1 data from its clinical trial. The stock shot up to $189 a share on this news. That's when your $10,000 investment would have been worth a cool $264,600.

Of course, the stock has been cut in half since then, dropping down to $82 a share on Friday. Your Novavax investment is now worth about $114,800 -- still not a bad return.

Where will this stock go in the near term? Nobody knows. But the long-term outlook for Novavax is quite positive. Based on its phase 3 data, the company's flu vaccine, NanoFlu, is highly likely to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). And so far, the COVID-19 data has many observers saying this vaccine is best-in-class. Here's hoping they are right.

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COVID-19 may have the worlds attention, but Pfizer hasnt forgotten making investments elsewhere.

The New York pharma will invest 300 million ($350 million) to upgrade three Irish manufacturing sites in Grange Castle in Dublin, Newbridge in Kildare and Ringaskiddy in Cork, and add about 300 jobs over the next two to three years, the company said Monday.

The investments will be used to add new manufacturing capacity and lab space, as well as new technologies to ensure Pfizer is ready to support the next wave of medical innovations, it said.

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The three Irish sites manufacture drugs and vaccines in the areas of arthritis, inflammation, cancer, anti-infectives, hemophilia, pain and stroke, according to the company

The Ringaskiddy site, which wasPfizers first foothold in Ireland, will install adrug development operation to produce compounds for clinical trials. This is a very important development, as it expands Pfizers role in Ireland from the manufacture of already approved medicines into the support of an earlier phase of new medicine development, Paul Reid, Pfizer Irelands country manager said, as quoted by The Irish Times.

Pfizers currently in the spotlight for developing a COVID-19 vaccine with German partner BioNTech. The pairs mRNA candidate, BNT162b2, is among four programs currently in phase 3 efficacy trials in the U.S. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla previously said the company could have preliminary efficacy data as early as October, but that didnt come through.

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Right now, the firm doesnt intend to discuss any interim efficacy analysis until it has a conclusive readout from the data monitoring committee, Bourla told investors during a conference call last week. It will also accrue two-month safety data from half of the trial participants following the final dose of the vaccine, as the FDA requires. Based on our current trial enrollment and dosing pace, we estimate we will reach this milestone in the third week of November, he said.

In July, the company nabbed $1.95 billion from the U.S. government to supply 100 million doses of the vaccine upon emergency use authorization, with potentially an additional 500 million doses down the line. In the EU, where the BNT162b2 shot is under the European Medicines Agencys rolling review, Pfizer and BioNTech have penned an agreement to provide 200 million doses, with an option for 100 million more.

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To make those shots, Pfizer has designated three U.S. sites and a Belgium facility as its COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing centers. The Grange Castle operation in Ireland is helping with quality testing batches for the Belgium plant, according to The Irish Times. Bourla has said the company will have relevant manufacturing data before the safety readout to support its COVID-19 application in the U.S.

The Irish investment comes as Pfizer isplanning to exita sterile injectables manufacturing site in Perth, Australia. The company intends to wind down operations there by 2023 and move its functions to its Melbourne, Australia, facility and other plants overseas.

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As 2020 has indeed proven to be an unrelenting year of challenges as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, government mandated quarantines, the economic collapse, and more, now more than ever, Americans are realizing the importance of maintaining a healthy and fit lifestyle. While the year has forced many business owners to reevaluate their companies and businesses, Colorado-based health and fitness visionary, Dr. Jeremy James saw the disadvantages of 2020 as an opportunity to reexamine how he could help optimize the performance and physical activity of Americans everywhere andrecognized the demand for a safe and effective exercise program that people could utilize at home. With this, he developed FITFOREVER,the first of its kind, digital fitness platform that is completely customized to a users body and can be performed from home.

As many might have realized during quarantine, the current landscape for digital fitness programs revealed how most approaches enlist a one-size-fits-all style of for training. Though it may work for some, for others, an approach like this often leads to injuries and inefficient workouts. In light of this realization, Dr. James along with his team of health and medical experts designed FITFOREVER to serve its users with a personalized fitness program that meets their needs, abilities, goals, and equipment availability.

With an extensive background in chronic back pain and human biomechanics, Dr. James is known for his best-selling book The Younger Next Year Back Book as well as two other programs, BACKFOREVER and GOLFFOREVER. After designing these two programs as a way to help people regain mobility and retrain the body to move freely without pain in the back or body, Dr. James saw huge success rates within his client base. With the foundation of his two prior programs, the fitness expert parlayed thisexpertise into FITFOREVER, with its focus being a comprehensive digital fitness platform that ranks helping users feelgreat as a top priority.

Our method is simple, says Dr. James. At FITFOREVER, our focus is on building a highly functional body that feels great. Looking good is just a wonderful side effect.

Through a personal assessment test, the program is the first of its kind, as it builds out a workout plan specifically designed to cater to each users body type, physical capabilities and goals. The program also takes into consideration things like pre-existing pain and injuries as well as the type of workout equipment a user has available to use. With daily-guided workout videos, users will enjoy their customized fitness plan as they begin their journey to building a strong foundation of physical activity and health, something Dr. James intends for all FITFOREVERmembers. While most existing digital fitness resources and platforms focus solely on aesthetic, FITFOREVER is one of the first to prioritize longevity and overall wellness.

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A prolific singer, actress and now businesswoman, Robyn Rihanna Fenty has officially earned the right to put herself in the category of celebs that only need one name for someone to know exactly who you're talking about. The Barbadian burst onto the U.S. music scene when she was 16 and hasn't slowed down since. But whether she's in the recording studio (maybe fine-tuning her highly anticipated next album currently being referred to as R9?) or working with designers at Fenty in Paris, the nine-time Grammy winner still makes time for her health and wellness.

For one thing, she's got the body to prove it. Known for making bold fashion choices, Rihanna's Instagram is filled with photos that reveal toned abs and strong legs. The singer has been known to work with multiple trainers at the same time and has a personal chef who travels with her on world tours to make sure she always has access to healthy, balanced meals.

Another priority for Rihanna is her mental health. Famously a night owl who survives on a seemingly incomprehensibly small amount of sleep, Rihanna has shifted her focus to allow for those days when she needs to take time to recharge.

While you probably don't have access to the resources that Rihanna does, there are still plenty of tips you can glean from her lifestyle so you, too, can continue to shine bright like a diamond. Here, 40 health and wellness tips Rihanna has used to live her healthiest life.

1 Don't skip breakfast.

RiRi starts the day off on an eggs-cellent foot. In an interview on The Doctors, Debbie Solomon, Rihanna's personal chef who serves up Bad Girl Riri's three meals a day and travels with the singer on tour (#goals), said that the superstar often has four boiled eggs, a piece of toast (with no crusts) and a bowl of mixed fruit for breakfast.

2 Try a Supraformer workout.

The intense Pilates-inspired workout was developed by Lagree Fitness founder Sebastian Lagree, according to BET. Dede Lagree, Sebastian's wife who has also worked with Rihanna, told the publication that it was Solomon who first convinced the superstar to add Supraformer training sessions to her fitness routine.

3 Spice it up.

Also in Solomon's luggage when she travels on tour with the "Umbrella" singer? A ton of spices. The chef told Bon Appetit the "case of spices" that's an essential part of travel with Rihanna includes bouillon-like maggi cubes, curry, cumin seeds, Old Bay seasoning, adobo, garlic granules, onion granules and five-spice.

4 Work with a trainer...or two.

Rihanna's had a handful of trainers over the years, and sometimes even two at the same time, according to Popsugar.

5 Try to eat balanced meals, even when you're not at home.

When she's on tour with Rihanna, Solomon has a standard set of groceries delivered to wherever they're staying that includes vegetables, rice and pasta, plus, "Every protein that you can think of that [Rihanna] eats, she told Bon Appetit.

While traveling with a personal chef isn't in the cards for most people, taking the time to eat well-rounded meals while you're on vacation will help keep your body feeling balanced.

6 But if meal planning doesn't work for you, don't do it.

Solomon told Bon Appetit that Rihanna is a "moody eater." The chef explained, [With previous clients] I would send in a menu on a Sunday or Monday and they would pick for the week, and then I'd be able to shop and prep, but this is nothing like that," Solomon told the publication. "We don't know what we're gonna want to eat tomorrow, so why even pick today?

7 Don't skimp on the snack selection.

She told Ellen DeGeneres on her show that her rider includes regular Cheetos, hot Cheetos, Oreos, Golden Grahams cereal, Cup o' Noodles, red and white wine, vodka, soda, Frappuccinos, and garlic olives, Elle reported. "I just like to be prepared," Rihanna said. "You never know what mood you're going to be in."

8 Stay hydrated.

Rihanna told Harper's Bazaar that she makes sure she's getting at least her eight glasses of water a dayespecially when she's traveling. Among the many, many benefits of staying hydrated is maintaining that killer glow.

9 Make time for yourself.

Rihanna told Interview last year that she recently realized the importance of actually saying please stop the music every once and a while. The superstar's calendar now includes days marked with a "P" for personal days during which she allows herself to only answer emails.

10 Find that workout motivation.

Rihanna told Vanity Fair in 2015 that one of the reasons she works out is to not have to worry as much about what she eats. "I have been in the gym every day this week because I am not willing to give up my food," she told the publication. "But I will sacrifice an hour for the gym."

11 Mix up your cardio.

Pasternak, according to Popsugar, likes to make sure Rihanna does a variety of cardio during her workouts. Running, Tae Kwon Do and full-body Capoeira are all possibilities for the "Desperado" singer's fitness program.

12 Love your bodyand all of its fluctuations.

Take it from the stunner herself, everyone has days when they feel great in their skin and days when they feel...not so great. The secret is embracing your body that day and doing what makes you feel good when it comes to clothes. "Well, I actually have had the pleasure of a fluctuating body type, where one day I can literally fit into something that is bodycon, and then the next daythe next weekI need something oversized; I need a little crop here and a high-waist there to hide that part, you know?" she told The Cut.

13 Get into your Zen zone with a diffuser.

The next time you're stressed, trying relaxing like RiRi. In a recent interview with A$AP Rocky, Rihanna said that her favorite purchase under $20 was a diffuser for her essential oils, Us Weekly reported.

14 Incorporate family recipes into your meal rotations.

Solomon taps into her and Rihanna's Caribbean roots for a lot of her meal #inspo, and the personal chef told Bon Appetit that it was Mama Fenty herself who helped her incorporate some of the family's favorite recipes into her cooking for Rihanna. It was just, like, her mom coming up and saying, This is how we make it, she said.

15 Kick butt with some martial arts training.

Another of RiRi's personal trainers Ary Nuez told Shape that the singer loves to put her (fitness) work, work, work, work, work in with martial arts, dancing, and calisthenics. "Rihanna is so connected to her body. She used to work out because it was part of her responsibility, but now she works out because she loves it!" Nuez said.

16 Work out at whatever time works for you.

As an internationally known singer and a full-on business mogul, Rihanna doesn't always have a lot of spare time on her hands to spend hours at the gym. According to Nuez, the two would sometimes train at 2 a.m. when she was in the middle of a tour.

17 Create meals focused on proper food combining.

Certain foods go better together not just because of their taste, but because the way your body reacts to or digests both work in harmony with each other. "You shouldn't mix starches with protein because there is an enzyme that exists for the processing of starches, and an enzyme that exists for the processing of protein-and they don't get along," Nuez explains. The trainer helped RiRi build a diet that made proper food combining a priority.

18 Maintain a thick skin.

What might be one of the most admirable things about Rihanna is that, even with her name known by literally millions, she seems confident in her ability to not care about what those millions of people think about her. "Ive always had pretty tough skineven as a little girl, which was completely due to my parents," she told Interview. "Maybe that was gods way of preparing me for what my life was going to be like."

19 Indulge every now and then.

If you watched the YouTube segment of Rihanna day drinking with Seth Meyers or seen that GIF of her at the Grammys three years ago, you know that Rihanna likes to throw back a few.

Make time for whatever is your indulgencewhether it's a nice cocktail, a fancy night out, or an hour spent in a bubble bath.

20 Make your happiness a priority.

The importance of focusing on her mental health and joy is something she realized in the past couple years, Rihanna told Interview. "If youre not happy, youre not going to be happy even doing things that you love doing," she said. "Itd feel like a chore. I never want work to feel like a chore."

21 Start the day with a little devotion.

The first thing the star does every morning? Prays, she told Interview. Even if you're not religious, starting each day with some internal reflection can help you get in the right mindset to take on whatever comes your way in the next 12 hours.

22 Don't try to change things that you can't control.

Besides praying "a lot," Rihanna told The Cut that whenever she is dealing with a particularly hard week or setback, she likes to embrace the "everything happens for a reason" mindset.

"Even if I cant feel it in that moment, I just thank God anyway, because I know that theres something better coming, and hes doing it for my good," she said. "I just dont understand it right now. I look forward to when its revealed to me."

23 Make time for the things that really matter.

Even with all the business deals and product development meetings and fans clamoring for her next album, Rihanna makes sure there's time in her schedule for the things that are important to her as a person (no matter how big or small). That includes flying home to Barbados in 2019 to attend the concert or her favorite childhood musician who had recently been released from prison.

"You dont get moments like these every day," she told Interview at the time. "Its a fleeting thing, so I wanted to have it."

24 Minimize rest between workout sets.

Celebrity trainer Harley Pasternak created workouts for the Ocean's 8 star that included minimal rest in order to keep her heart rate up, according to Popsugar. The more you're able to keep moving throughout your entire workout, the better.

25 Perfect basic dumbbell moves.

Rihanna's strength training focuses mainly on going back to the basics, according to Popsugar. Want to workout like RiRi? Think: lots of weighted squats, lunges and shoulder presses.

26 Don't be in the dark about your health.

In 2016, the Grammy winner and Prince Harry both took an HIV test on camera in her home country of Barbados as part of PSA about how easy it is to learn your status. "Couldn't believe how easy this was to get tested and find out my status on the spot!" Rihanna wrote in an Instagram caption about the experience. "Thank you Prince Harry for this initiative! It will really make a difference in the fight against HIV and AIDS."

27 Trade your three meals a day for five.

Pasternak is also a big proponent of eating five meals a day and created a meal plan around the idea call the Five Factor Diet, according to The Cut. One day a week she has a cheat day and can eat and drink anything she wants," the trainer told Stylecaster. "Beer, chocolate, it doesnt matter. I just ask her not to tell me because I dont want to know!

28 If you need to, see a mental health professional.

After touring around the world, it's hard to imagine that Rihanna still gets nervous before shows. But even superstars still feel the pressure. According to the Daily Mirror, she reportedly sought the services of a counselor before one particularly nerve-wracking concert in the U.K. in 2014. Everyone needs some extra help every once and a whileand it's empowering to ask for it.

29 Put the phone down. Seriously.

Spending too much time in the virtual world and not enough time in the real one is something that Rihanna admits she (like all of us) is guilty of. But today, it's a different story. "Even mentally, just to be away from my phone, to be in the moment, that has been key for my growth, she told Vogue. Now, when I come to work, Im all in."

30 Make little things a big deal.

When she's starting to feel the burnout coming on, Rihanna told Interview that she focuses on things like going for a walk or going to the grocery store that may seem everyday, or even like a chore, things to be excited about.

31 Make sure you've got a good workout playlist...

You know a good song can mean the difference between jumping into a workout or putting it off. Nuez told Seventeen that RiRi's fitness jams include Katy Perry, Jay Z, and a lot of reggae.

32 ...and a crucial cute workout outfit.

Before she changed the industry with Fenty Fashion, Rihanna and Puma collab'ed for a sportswear collection that debuted during Paris Fashion Week. Her goal for the collection? Marie Antoinette "if she was going to the gym," she told the New York Times.

33 Find a sleep schedule that works for you.

An admitted night owl, Rihanna gets by on less-than-an-ideal amount of sleep (think maybe four hours) and has referred to her sleep schedule more as "sleep pockets." While this might seem like a one-way ticket to burnout station, it seems to be working for the A-lister so far.

But that doesn't mean it also has to work for you. What's important is figuring out your optimal sleep amount and making that a priority.

34 Get in a killer boot camp workout.

When she needed to get in shape for her role in Battleship, Rihanna trained alongside Navy soldiers in workouts that she described to Popsugar as "really intense with lots of yelling." You'll probably experience less screaming at a gym-based boot camp, but you should still expect full body drills and lots and lots of push-ups.

35 Do resistance training.

For the film, Rihanna also needed hella upper-body strength to be able lift the heavy artillery featured in the movie. According to Popsugar, her trainer's answer was weighted sandbags. Give them a try!

36 Make time to make a difference.

In between her fashion work and the recording studio, Rihanna also devotes a lot of her time to her philanthropy. She's been outspoken about issues like education, women's rights, gun violence, and racial justice. Most recently, the superstar donated $5 million to COVID-19 relief efforts through her Clara Lionel Foundation, CNN reported.

37 Don't underestimate the power of a good reality TV binge.

Like most of us, Rihanna likes to veg out with some good reality television, especially the Bravo network. The Grammy winner posted about Vanderpump Rules on her Instagram, Us Weekly reports, and reportedly also loves The Real Housewives of Atlanta.

38 Make time to hang out with friends.

Rihanna told Vogue in 2012 that, sometimes, she and her friends will ditch her bodyguard and they'll all go shopping together to get away from the fame life. Her friend Melissa told the magazine that it helps Rihanna feel a little "normal" again.

39 If you really need time to relax, take a trip home.

As you can imagine with touring and events around the world, Rihanna doesn't always get to spend as much time as she would like in Barbados. But whenever she does get to travel back home, the singer says she always feels more at peace. "As much as anything I love the way the place makes me feel," she told Conde Nast Traveler. "Its beautiful, and so relaxing, when I am in Barbados all is well with the world again."

40 Understand that getting comfortable with your body is a process.

Having RiRi levels of confidence is not something you can pick up overnight, and she had to learn how to be comfortable in her own skinespecially when it came to the more revealing outfits for her music videos and photoshoots.

"I mean you get comfortable with the fact that thats your body and that is what it isthat I had to learn," she told the Daily Mail. "After doing that on set, I started doing that in the mirror because it was like, OK, whatever, I feel fat today, but what can you really do about it?"

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