Hormel Foods Corp

NYSE: HRL
$31.61
+$0.06 (+0.2%)
Closing Price on December 24, 2024

HRL Articles

Next week will still bring many key earnings.  The difference is that while some of these may have wild swings, this list is unlikely to bring about any major market moving reports even if some of...
Time for our daily look at the world of commodity prices and key developments. Corn futures continue their seemingly inexorable march toward $8/bushel as wet and windy weather in the US Midwest...
We have many big events to watch for in the coming week at American Water Works Company, Inc. (NYSE: AWK), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL), AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T), Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE: VZ),...
To make the cut onto the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index, a company has to have paid a dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. The index includes at least 40 stocks and it is...
These are some of this Wednesday’s key analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research calls. Agrium Inc. (NYSE: AGU) Started as Neutral at Goldman Sachs. Campbell Soup...
The bulls ran for cover today as commodities and financial stocks are pulling the market lower.  After two huge ‘sell the news’ earnings reactions were followed by even more ‘sell the news’...
Defensive stocks are supposed to hold up in down stock markets.  That isn’t so today.  In our list of 17 defensive stocks we routinely track, none were positive today.  On average, the defensive...
There are three things investors traditionally want after making huge gains when they still want to hold stocks.  They want stocks that have dividends and may want ‘value stocks.’  But the...
A look at the “hardest working” major brands for 2009 shows that a number of them belong to companies which have done poorly and, in at least one case, may file Chapter 11. This is due to the...
There are a number of ways to rank brand values. One of the most important is the level at which a brand contributes to the market value of a public company. 24/7 Wall St. asked Corebrand, the brand...
Wasn’t it just last week that we were up eight days in a row on the DJIA?  And now we have a sell-the-news reaction to the recent growth numbers.  Maybe it is because we ran too far too fast and...
Investors flock to defensive stocks in times of trouble and and when they worry, assuming they look to stay in the market when they are worried.  But if the trend here continues, this may be one of...
It’s another rough trading day in the stock market.  It is bad enough that the DJIA is down over 3% to decade lows and under 7,000… But even almost all of the defensive stocks are down today. ...
There was an interesting warning on 2008 earnings this morning, although it seems almost counter-intuitive.  Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE: HRL) is almost back at 52-week lows this morning.  The company...
You know it’s a rough day in the market when even defensive stocks are weak or mixed.  We are at least seeing a mixed bag from some of these. But the trend is a pretty easy one to see.  Even...