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

    By Matthew Frankel - May 18, 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 »

  • Three Meat Producers for a Hungry Portfolio

    By Leo Sun - April 10, 2013 | Tickers: PPC, SFD, TSN | Editor's Choice

    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 »

  • 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 »

  • Private Equity Loves Chicken

    By Mike Thiessen - March 21, 2013 | Tickers: KKR, BX, TSN

    New York-based asset management firm Blackstone Group (NYSE: BX) has placed a formal final buyout bid for Australian poultry producer Ingham's Chicken. Along with fellow private equity outfit TPG Capital, Blackstone is vying to take control of Australia's largest bird-products firm in a deal that has been valued at more than $800 million. In a relatively rare move, both of the bidders would need to use substantial leverage 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 »

  • Why This Foods Company (Still) has a Huge Upside

    By Piyush Arora - February 27, 2013 | Tickers: MCD, TSN, YUM

    US drought might have ruined a major chunk of its crop yield, but it also presented an investment opportunity to capitalize on. Due to shortage of crop supplies, prices of crops including corn and fodder skyrocketed. Naturally many farmers weren’t able to feed fodder to their livestock, which in turn created a strain on meat supply. Eventually the prices of meat products appreciated by nearly 15% and companies like 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 »

  • 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 »

  • Insiders Are Buying These Food-related Stocks

    By Alex Bastardas - February 14, 2013 | Tickers: EAT, TSN, YUM

    Insider trading has long been considered by many to be an important indicator of a company's expected performance. An insider purchase might be a sign of good things to come for the stock. However, it is always essential to do due diligence and not base a buy or sell decision on insider activity alone, which is why in this post I will be analyzing in some detail three food-related more »

  • What Happened To That Classic Company?

    By Mike Thiessen - February 13, 2013 | Tickers: SLE, TSN

    In late June of 2012, famed prepared-foods company Sara Lee announced that it had finalized the spin-off of its global bakery and beverage businesses. The transaction split the decades-old company into two components: Chicago-based Hillshire Brands (NYSE: HSH) and Utrecht, Netherlands-based D.E. Master Blenders 1753. Most of Sara Lee's North American assets were subsumed into Hillshire Brands. Meanwhile, D.E. absorbed the company's coffee and tea businesses 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 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 »

  • 21st Century Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick Makers

    By Michael Ugulini - January 22, 2013 | Tickers: KRFT, PNRA, TSN, UN

    It really wasn't that long ago that a quick trip downtown brought you to a host of trade people – the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker - all nestled amongst each other on Main Street, rubbing elbows and sharing stories with each other on summer sidewalks.

    Today, an easy way to find members of this group all together in one place is to check their ticker listings on the major 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 »

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