Hormel Foods is a food company. Co.'s segments are: Grocery Products, which consist of the processing, marketing, and sale of shelf-stable food products, along with the sale of nutritional and private label shelf-stable products; Refrigerated Foods, which include the processing, marketing, and sale of pork, beef, and poultry products for retail, foodservice, deli, convenience store, and commercial customers; Jennie-O Turkey Store, which consists of the processing, marketing, and sale of turkey products for retail, foodservice, and commercial customers; and International & Other, which manufactures, markets, and sells Co.'s products internationally.
When researching a stock like Hormel Foods, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from HRL Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for HRL stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the HRL 200 day moving average ("HRL 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the HRL 50 day moving average ("HRL 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Hormel Foods. |
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