BlackRock Fund Advisors has recently announced that it has increased stake in Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE:HRL) by 3.57%. After grabbing 20.61 million shares, the institutional investor is now in possession of 0.71 million shares of the Consumer Defensive Company. The new investment brought the stake of investor firm to 3.77% having worth around $661.65 million. Moreover, Capital Research & Management Co increased its share by 0.74 million to have a control over 14.22 million shares. And Geode Capital Management LLC raised its holdings to 0.14 million shares by acquiring 6.67 million shares or 1.22% of the stake.
Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $30.42, with 3.0 million shares of worth about $91.38 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -25.46% during that period and on Thursday, January 25 the price saw a gain of about 0.07%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 546.60M shares, out of which, 289.02M shares are available for trading.
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According to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), insiders took part in trade of the company’s stock for 42 times over the past 12 months. They bought 168,576 shares in 35 of the transactions. In 7 selling transactions, insiders dumped 70,305 shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF, Vanguard 500 Index Fund, and Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund are the top 3 mutual funds which are holding stakes in Hormel Foods Corp. Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF is currently holding 8.58 million shares of worth totaling $275.52 million. The company recently came buying 8579.0 shares which brought its stake up to 1.57% of the company’s outstanding shares. Vanguard 500 Index Fund bought 7109.0 shares, after which its hold over company’s outstanding shares expand to 1.29%, leaving 7.07 million shares with the mutual fund that have a worth of about $226.89 million. Vanguard Mid Cap Index Fund, after selling 5.68 million shares, have now control over 1.04% of the stake in the company. It holds 81197.0 shares of worth $182.27 million.
However, the stock later moved at a day high price of 30.71, or with a gain of 0.07%. Stock saw a price change of -2.12% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -4.22%. Year-to-date (YTD), HRL shares are showing a performance of -5.26% which decreased to -31.79% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $30.12 but also hit the highest price of $46.04 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Hormel Foods Corp. shares is 3.19 million. The stock is currently trading -3.89% below its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -4.37% for SMA50 and it goes to -17.43% lower than SMA200.
BlackRock Fund Advisors acquired 20.61 million shares of Hormel Foods Corp. having value of about $661.65 million. Data submitted at the U.S SEC by BlackRock Fund Advisors revealed that the firm now holds 0.71 million shares in the company valued at close to $21583355.04, or have control over 3.57% stake in the company. Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE: HRL) currently have 546.60M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 42.12% of that. Holding of mutual funds in the company is about 23.06% while other institutional holders and individual stake holders have control over 48.89% and 19.41% of the stake respectively.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $16.63B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.23. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 21.05, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.45 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.57 and has Quick Ratio of 0.70 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.45. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for HRL, volatility over the week remained 1.69% while standing at 1.55% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $0.34 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $0.37 and it is $1.67 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $0.3 which is $0.36 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $0.4 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -3.68% while it is estimated to increase by 6.34% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 8.20% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -4.93% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
