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  • Will Patience Payoff with this Pork Producer?

    By Bob Chandler - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SFD, TSN

    Though its stock is up around 40% from a 2012 low, Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) may have to navigate some near-term headwinds before making another move higher. Smithfield, the world's largest pork processor and hog producer, might be facing a very tough operating environment for at least the next six months. After reporting a 15% net profit decline on a 3% sales increase in its latest quarter, the combination more »

  • This Food Company Seems Expensive, As Do the Rest!

    By Matthew Frankel - May 21, 2013 | Tickers: GIS, HRL, TSN

    Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) is one of the largest producers of meat and food products, and caught my eye when looking for investment candidates in the food industry. While the stock may look expensive upon a first glance, trading for over 22 times TTM earnings, a more in-depth look reveals that this may not be the case at all.

    Hormel’s business is doing great, as you can see by more »

  • Don't Be Too Chicken to Buy This Stock

    By Marshall Hargrave - May 14, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SFD, TSN

    Tyson Foods (NYSE: TSN) is the largest meat processor in the U.S., working with chicken, pork, and beef. Its recent quarterly results showed weaker-than-expected results, as consumers and restaurants switched to cheaper chicken from beef. The big news was the fact that Tyson cut its full-year guidance. 

    The company's stock was down nearly 5% on the news, but has slowly recovered as investors digest it. For the first more »

  • 3 Great Consumer Staples Stocks Flying Under The Radar

    By Robert Ciura - May 7, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, CHD, HRL

    Most income investors are well-aware of the benefits of dividend investing. Those quarterly checks provide stability and guaranteed returns in an era of high-frequency trading, geopolitical unrest, and volatile markets.

    The consumer staples sector in particular is a haven for those who enjoy receiving solid dividend yields. However, while most investors are fully aware of the market’s biggest consumer staples giants, there are a few stocks with much smaller more »

  • 5 Food Companies To Feed Your Watchlist

    By Cory Renauer - May 2, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, GIS, HRL, SJM, MKC

    The packaged food companies below all market branded items that supermarkets and mini-marts absolutely must carry, or they risk losing business to stores that do. Just think about what people would say about a supermarket that refused to stock Cheerios in the cereal aisle. Also, because of their brand recognition, these companies don’t need to enter pricing wars with competitors. They can continue to charge higher prices for a more »

  • Global Urbanization will Lead to Greater Demand for Niche Food Products

    By Jonathan Yates - April 20, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, MCD, SBUX, YUM

    In a recent interview in Barron’s magazine , Carl Weinberg, Chief Economist for High Frequency Economics, stated that he was bullish on the future of China due to the urbanization of its population. Weinberg noted that each person who moved from the country to the city increased the gross domestic product of that country by 600%. As this is happening not just in China, but around the world, there will more »

  • Do These Stocks Provide a Margin of Safety?

    By Robert Ciura - April 8, 2013 | Tickers: BF-B, HRL, MKC

    When the stock market is doing very well, investors tend to lose sight of valuation. It’s important to not get caught up in the market’s performance and risk turning a blind eye to disciplined investing practices. One such concept that investors would be wise to keep in mind today is the margin of safety. Many value investors understand the need to buy stocks at prices meaningfully below their more »

  • This Meat Supplier Could Continue to Soar

    By Piyush Arora - March 29, 2013 | Tickers: BRFS, HRL, TSN

    A silver lining in last year’s drought was that it created more business for not only the fertilizer industry, but also the meat industry. Due to higher crop prices, the cost to raise cattle increased, which wasn't ideal. The higher costs, however, were passed down to consumers with higher meat prices.

    Meat-producing companies were able to command higher prices, which eventually drove up their margins. But according to more »

  • Horsemeat Ban Worked Wonders for This Company's Health

    By Shas Dey - March 27, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SFD, TSN

    The European horsemeat scandal is doing strange things to U.S. businesses. For one it is keeping a Gainesville business busy with supplying test kits – a first of its kind test for detecting horse protein. And second, the market is having a second look at food processing companies like Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) in light of reports of a ban on horsemeat processing.

    The recent horsemeat scandal surfaced when horsemeat more »

  • This Pork Business Seems To Be Quite Attractive

    By Anh HOANG - March 19, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SFD, TSN

    There is increasing pressure on Smithfield Foods (NYSE: SFD) from Continental Grain, one of its biggest shareholders. Continental Grain has urged Smithfield to consider strategic changes, including the idea to break up the company into three separate companies to further enhance shareholders’ value. In the letter to Smithfield’s board of directors, Continental Grain said that it is essential for the company to hire an independent investment bank to help more »

  • Is Further Consumer Staples Consolidation Coming?

    By Robert Ciura - February 25, 2013 | Tickers: BRK-B, CPB, HNZ, HRL

    Warren Buffett has done it again.  His Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B) has, in his terms, ‘bagged another elephant’.  In February, it was revealed that Berkshire and a Brazilian private equity firm would be purchasing Heinz (NYSE: HNZ) in a deal worth $23 billion.  Investors may be wondering if this signals a turnaround for mergers and acquisitions.  In a recent segment on CNBC, Jim Cramer claimed that we are now in more »

  • It's a Spammy, Spammy World

    By Leo Sun - February 25, 2013 | Tickers: BGS, CAG, HRL, MDLZ, TSN

    Hormel (NYSE: HRL), the maker of iconic canned meat Spam, has surprisingly been one of the most impressive growth stocks of the decade. The stock has risen 240% over the past ten years and nearly 80% over the past five - leaving the S&P 500 in the dust. It has also outperformed major competitors such as ConAgra (NYSE: CAG) and Tyson (NYSE: TSN). What factors propelled this seemingly ordinary stock more »

  • A Profitable and High Yielding Food Company

    By Anh HOANG - February 1, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SLE, TSN

    Mario Gabelli, the Chairman and CEO of GAMCO Investors, is famous for his long-term investment track record. Since 1986, he has beaten the S&P 500 by more than 2% per year. He also has grown the assets under management to over $30 billion. In a recent 2013 Barron’s Roundtable, Mario Gabelli talked about several stocks that he felt confident about. Let’s look closer into his thesis to more »

  • 3 Consumer Staples Stocks that Feed You Dividends

    By Robert Ciura - January 18, 2013 | Tickers: CPB, HNZ, HRL

    In a highly volatile investing environment in which investors are faced with huge swings in the markets on a seemingly daily basis, it’s comforting to me to have a constant stream of dividends rolling in.  Dividend checks will keep coming in no matter how the market is reacting to the daily headlines.  In the pursuit of a portfolio with lower volatility and higher yield, I’m currently looking to more »

  • 3 Appetizing Food Companies for Return Hungry Investors

    By Josh Kohn-Lindquist - January 14, 2013 | Tickers: DOLE, HRL, UNFI, WFM

    Confined to an industry that is famous for its low margins, most food companies are seen as "recession proof holdings", or slow growing behemoths with little chance of bringing large returns to investors.  Often heavily indebted, these food stocks rely on their wide moat to raise cash for debt payments or to make acquisitions.  Their straightforward "people need food and we sell it" mantra must certainly leave a few investors more »

  • Hormel's Interesting Sweet Market Solution

    By Josef Ray Dagatan - January 13, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, PPC, SFD, TSN, UL

    Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), a global producer and distributor of customer-branded goods, continually expands its expertise, novelty, and capabilities in pork and turkey production and advertising to provide recognized, quality products to the international market.  Throughout the years, the company has been enjoying a solid status among buyers, merchandisers, foodservices, and industrial consumers for goods substantially regarded for high quality, nutritional content, taste, expediency, and value, amongst many others.

    Hormel more »

  • In 2013, Gain Big With Blue Chips

    By Gaurav Seetharam - January 11, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, PG, UL | Editor's Choice

    Now that the manufactured drama of the fiscal cliff is done, we can examine how to weather the actual headwinds of 2013. Europe has a genuine growth crisis and the expiration of the payroll tax cut will hurt the pocketbooks of average Americans. In such times it may be necessary to recall that the Darwinian principle is "survival of the fittest" and not "survival of the biggest." When uncertainty is more »

  • Skipping Into China On Peanut Shells

    By Diane Alter - January 10, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SJM

    Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), the owner of Spam, Dinty Moore canned stew, Jenne-O turkey products, and Hormel Chili, just shelled out some big bucks for Skippy peanut butter, the number two peanut butter brand in the United States.

    While the addition is said to “balance” Hormel’s pantry line, the acquisition is a carefully spread out strategic move to gain traction in the explosive Chinese market in which Skippy is more »

  • Win-Win Peanut Butter Deal

    By Anh HOANG - January 9, 2013 | Tickers: HRL, SJM, UN

    In the effort of expanding its business into general packaged foods and accelerate its growth in China, Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL) has agreed to acquire the Skippy peanut butter business from Unilever (NYSE: UN) for total $700 million in cash. Skippy is considered to be the number two peanut butter brand in the US, just behind Jif brand, which belongs to J.M. Smucker Company (NYSE: SJM). Does Hormel become more »

  • Is This the World’s Favorite Ketchup?

    By Sidhi Kharkia - December 10, 2012 | Tickers: CPB, HNZ, HRL

    This company sells staple products that enhance the foods that people enjoy every day and has been ranked #1 in overall customer satisfaction among food manufacturers in the 2012 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Heinz, the most well-known ketchup in the U.S, led all food manufacturers for the 13th consecutive year.

    H.J. Heinz (NYSE: HNZ), delivered solid results for the second quarter ended October 28 by  reporting net more »

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