Hormel does trade at a relatively expensive multiple compared with competitors, priced at 17-times earnings.
Meat stocks like Hormel Foods are looking tasty after a not so appetizing holiday season.
Hormel Foods, which also owns Wholly Guacamole, bought the brand from Anglo-Dutch food giant Unilever.
Hormel Foods increased 2%, though Tyson Foods fell 0.1%, Sanderson Farms 1.4% and Pilgrim's Pride 4.1%.
Analysts generally think investors should stand pat on Hormel, with six of nine analysts rating it hold.
The group's one American member, bassist Smokey Hormel, has worked with Neil Diamond and Johnny Cash, and hears the similarity.
But Hormel is hedging some of that risk on top of efforts to pare down the cost structure.
On the left, some criticised his remarks about James Hormel, the first openly gay US ambassador, in 1998.
Those stocks were EMC Corp ( EMC), Alcatel-Lucent ( ALU), Rock-Tenn Company ( RKT), and Hormel Foods Corporation ( HRL).
Hormel has cooked up a healthy balance sheet with no long-term debt load and enough cash to meet short-term debt.
Mr Hagel opposed Mr Hormel's appointment to Luxembourg, calling him "aggressively" gay.
Hormel, which booked a 49% rise in profits, was up 1.3%.
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There are several options on the table in the food space, and the momentum behind Hormel is ready to serve up higher prices.
Hormel is up over 15 percent since the beginning of the rally that started in September, helping the stock gain 33 percent in 2010.
He orchestrated media events to win free publicity, betting that a public outcry would embarrass Hormel as well as the businesses connected to it.
There is a technical risk that Hormel is in the midst of forming a rounding top, based on slightly increasing volume during the late-December retracement.
As a trade down, Hormel should be able to pass through some percentage of cost increases, assuming other food producers sustain price hikes as well.
Hormel and Fremont Beef, the big local meatpackers, already use E-Verify.
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Heinz and Hormel Foods also issued their latest quarterly figures.
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Hormel Foods is engaged in the production of a variety of meat and food products and the marketing of those products throughout the United States and internationally.
Nor are we charity bloggers or Bonbon women with nothing to do but pine and pundit and whine and advocate until our husbands come home with the Hormel.
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U.S. meat producer Hormel also has operations in the city.
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Her husband, born in Mexico, has been promoted at Hormel.
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What does Hormel think about this proliferation of its mark?
When the Hormel company proposed a pay cut for its laborers in the mid-eighties, Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union refused to give in.
Using a 4-month chart, a 10-period relative strength index reading of 7 and slow stochastics in deeply oversold territory indicate Hormel could be attractively priced in the current price range.
As we continue to sharpen our portfolio to deliver sustainable growth for Unilever, we believe that the potential of the Skippy brand can now be more fully realised with Hormel Foods.
Customers include Hormel Foods Corp. and Tyson Foods Corp.
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