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Seasonal Chart Analysis

Analysis of the Hormel Foods Corp. (NYSE:HRL) seasonal charts above shows that a Buy Date of November 6 and a Sell Date of March 4 has resulted in a geometric average return of 6.8% above the benchmark rate of the S&P 500 Total Return Index over the past 20 years. This seasonal timeframe has shown positive results compared to the benchmark in 16 of those periods. This is a very good rate of success and the return strongly outperforms the relative buy-and-hold performance of the stock over the past 20 years by an average of 3.86% per year.

The seasonal timeframe correlates Poorly with the period of seasonal strength for the Consumer Staples sector, which runs from April 25 to November 23. The seasonal chart for the broad sector is available via the following link: Consumer Staples Sector Seasonal Chart.

Hormel Foods is a protein-focused branded food company. Its brands include its namesake Hormel, Spam, Jennie-O, Dinty Moore, Applegate, Wholly Guacamole, Planters, and Skippy. The vast majority of the company’s revenue is U.S.-based: 62% U.S. retail, 31% U.S. food service, and 6% international. By product type, in fiscal 2022, 17% of revenue was shelf-stable foods, 27% was poultry (branded and commodity), 53% was other perishable food, and 3% was other, primarily nutritional products. The company holds the number-one market position in shelf-stable meat, shelf-stable ready meals, pepperoni, natural/organic deli meat, and guacamole and the number-two position in turkey, bacon, chilled ready meals, and peanut butter.

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