Sunday, December 30, 2012

Top Stocks To Buy For 12/15/2012-5

Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) witnessed volume of 3.07 million shares during last trade however it holds an average trading capacity of 1.34 million shares. HRL last trade opened at $28.32 reached intraday low of $26.11 and went -7.31% down to close at $26.36.

HRL has a market capitalization $7.04 billion and an enterprise value at $6.68 billion. Trailing twelve months price to sales ratio of the stock was 0.92 while price to book ratio in most recent quarter was 2.67. In profitability ratios, net profit margin in past twelve months appeared at 6.06% whereas operating profit margin for the same period at 9.41%.

The company made a return on asset of 10.96% in past twelve months and return on equity of 19.14% for similar period. In the period of trailing 12 months it generated revenue amounted to $7.67 billion gaining $28.79 revenue per share. Its year over year, quarterly growth of revenue was 15.30% holding 40.70% quarterly earnings growth.

According to preceding quarter balance sheet results, the company had $964.71 million cash in hand making cash per share at 3.61. The total of $600.00 million debt was there putting a total debt to equity ratio 22.70. Moreover its current ratio according to same quarter results was 2.27 and book value per share was 9.86.

Looking at the trading information, the stock price history displayed that its S&P500 52 Week Change illustrated 10.70% where the stock current price exhibited down beat from its 50 day moving average price of $28.71 and remained below from its 200 Day Moving Average price of $28.39.

HRL holds 267.21 million outstanding shares with 137.76 million floating shares where insider possessed 48.13% and institutions kept 32.00%.

No comments:

Post a Comment