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• 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 »

• Three Meat Producers for a Hungry Portfolio

  By Leo Sun - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: PPC, SFD, TSN |

  Long-term investors should always look for long-term macro trends in the market. Today, one of the most important global trends is the rapid growth of the global population, and the escalating demand for more food. Considering that the world’s population just topped seven billion, and the medium estimate from the UN calls for a population of ten billion by the end of the century, I’d say that basic more »

• Three Meat Producers for a Hungry Portfolio

  By Leo Sun - April 9, 2013 | Tickers: PPC, SFD, TSN

  Long-term investors should always look for long-term macro trends in the market. Today, one of the most important global trends is the rapid growth of the global population, and the escalating demand for more food. Considering that the world’s population just topped seven billion, and the medium estimate from the UN calls for a population of ten billion by the end of the century, I’d say that basic more »

• Where Next for This Protein Play?

  By Lee Samaha - April 3, 2013 | Tickers: CALM, SAFM, SFD

  Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ: CALM) gave results recently, and I felt it was time to reassess its prospects. The stock is unusual in that it has a number of profit drivers which can come together positively to give the prospect of generating non market correlated returns. This is interesting in itself, but investors should understand the underlying dynamics before buying. And it is not as simple as it appears.

  Cal-Maine Recession 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 »

• Why Pork and Poultry Could Produce Plumper Profits in 2013

  By Arturo Cuevas - March 8, 2013 | Tickers: PPC, SFD, TSN

  The prolonged drought in several areas of the U.S. shows little signs of abating. In some states, it's even spreading. Can investors devise a stock play from this climate phenomenon?

  For one idea, consider that U.S. cattle-raisers have been hit hardest by the lingering drought. According to  estimates during the recent 2013 Cattle Industry Convention, the U.S. cattle herd is now at its smallest number since more »

• The Difference A Year Can Make

  By Gerelyn Terzo - February 20, 2013 | Tickers: SAFM, SFD, TSN

  Last year felt like Armageddon in the farming industry. One of the worst droughts ever in U.S. history gripped the Midwestern states and threatened the livelihood of the farming community. Suddenly, things are looking up and -- according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture -- farmers can prepare for their best year of income in four decades. Apparently the land needed to rest, and for months that was all it more »

• This Large Meat Company is Making Dough

  By Satarupa Bose - February 12, 2013 | Tickers: CALM, SFD, TSN

  The worst drought in more than 50 years in the US Midwest has affected the entire meat industry. Companies across all segments who use corn to feed their livestock are feeling the pinch of the rising corn prices.The largest U.S. producer and distributor of fresh-shell eggs, Cal-Maine (NASDAQ: CALM), reported in their second quarter earnings that gross profit declined 16.6% due to a 23.4% surge in more »

• Corn Keeps the World Going, Let's Invest

  By Ash Anderson - January 28, 2013 | Tickers: MON, POT, SFD, TSN

  Think that corn is just for eating, think again. This little miracle food is used for everything! It's the ethanol in the fuel that gets us to work and school, it's the food that our livestock eat, the key ingredient of many plastics and adhesives, there are even chemicals made from it. Oh, we can also eat it; let's not forget about that one. 

  The one problem more »

• Agriculture Company Going Private Soon

  By Mike Thiessen - January 23, 2013 | Tickers: SFD, TSN, HOGS

  Henan, China-based pork products manufacturer Zhongpin (NASDAQ: HOGS) recently announced that it would take itself private by merging with Cayman Islands-based Golden Bridge Holdings Limited. In a complex international transaction, Golden Bridge will purchase the company using a specially-formed Delaware-based subsidiary known as Golden Bridge Merger Sub Limited. Zhongpin's current chief executive officer and several other key company associates will also contribute capital to the deal in exchange for 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.

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• Severe drought drives food prices north; food processors under pressure

  By Dinesh Dhiman - January 13, 2013 | Tickers: PPC, SFD, TSN

  The severe, unrelenting drought conditions that swept the Midwest-US in 2012 are likely to prevail in the current year as well, spelling tough time not only for farmers and the public, but food processing companies as well.

  Crop yields are expected to remain at their lowest levels since 1995. Experts feel that the drought will continue to drive food prices north, putting food processors under tremendous pressure and its effect more »

• A High-Priced Stock for Long Term Investors

  By Anh HOANG - December 11, 2012 | Tickers: BG, SEB, SFD

  Are you interested in a business, which has delivered consistent positive profits in the last 10 years? In addition, it also generated positive and growing trend of operating cash flow in the same period. However, it is valued at single digit forward earnings and EV/EBITDA. The company has postponed its dividend payment since the beginning of 2011, but it recently announced that it would prepay the next four years more »

• A Bear Market My Dear Watson

  By Jon Quast - November 6, 2012 | Tickers: BAC, DE, XOM, SFD, TSN, WFC

  Dr. Watson: "You speak of danger.  You have evidently seen more in these rooms than was visible to me."

  Sherlock Holmes: "No, but I fancy that I may have deduced a little more.  I imagine that you saw all that I did."

  Is there evidence before us right now we need to consider?  Could it be that we are heading for a bear market in 2013?  I believe we are indeed headed for a bear market, and I would like to present you with six pieces of evidence that have led me to my deduction my dear Watson:

• Insiders Bought These Underperforming Stocks

  By Meena Krishnamsetty - October 19, 2012 | Tickers: BBY, CHK, ERIE, SFD, WFT

  It’s hard to tell when a stock that has been in free fall for some time is about to stabilize. “Catching a falling knife,” as it is called, is hard to do psychologically, and it is also risky. After all, if a stock is down 75%, that means at one point it was down 50% and other investors bought it thinking it was a good value, and then it more »

• The Good, The Bad, and the Poultry: Are These Stocks Undervalued?

  By T. M. Loyd - October 15, 2012 | Tickers: HRL, SFD, TSN, WFM

  I prefer organic, free-range, green, etc. etc. foods from the likes of Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM), but that's always been a convenience; when I'm hard up for cash, I fall back on old reliables like Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN), Smithfield Foods, Inc. (NYSE: SFD), and the Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE: HRL). Unsurprisingly, these stocks reflect my wallet; Whole Foods has enjoyed an upward run over the more »

• Don't Miss This Dividend Paying Stock

  By Himanshu Poddar - October 15, 2012 | Tickers: CALM, SFD, TSN

  A company which comes out of a difficult situation smoothly is one to take note of. Recently, the biggest problem in the food industry has been increasing commodity costs. The drought conditions in U.S. have been a major concern for many companies, especially the ones who largely depend on crops for their animal feeding.

  Cal-Maine Foods (NASDAQ: CALM), one of the largest producer of shell eggs in the United more »

• Oh, for the Love of Bacon!

  By John Casteele - October 9, 2012 | Tickers: HRL, SFD, TSN

  By now you've surely heard the news from the UK about the impending bacon shortage that sent the Internet into a tizzy last week. It was as though a million voices cried out "Noooooooooo!" in unison and then were silenced. Ok, maybe they weren't exactly silenced, but the anguish over the loss of bacon in the near future turned to occasional giggles as a thousand Internet memes were more »

• Tyson Readies Possible Proxy Fight

  By Gerelyn Terzo - October 8, 2012 | Tickers: MCD, SFD, TSN

  Adding a vegan to the board of directors at one of the largest meat companies in the world is kind of like releasing a bull in a China shop -- things are going to get broken. Nonetheless, winning a slot on Tyson Food's (NYSE: TSN) board is precisely what animal activist Wayne Pacelle -- who sits at the helm of the Humane Society and who has garnered support from the likes more »

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