Hormel Foods on Barron's 500 List
In 52-Week Total Return versus the Standard & Poor’s 500, Hormel Foods ranked No. 119 in Fiscal 2011, up from No. 141 for Fiscal 2010. This ranking is based on financial measures, including cash flow and sales growth, and is not open to third-party influence.
THE BARRON'S 500 is a unique ranking of the largest publicly traded companies in the U.S. and Canada as measured by sales in the latest fiscal year. Prepared by HOLT, a unit of Credit Suisse, it seeks to identify companies with superior financial performance. HOLT compares the 500 companies using three equally weighted measures: sales growth in the latest fiscal year, adjusted for divestitures; median three-year return on investment, based on a cash-flow calculation the firm calls CFROI, and the change in CFROI in the latest fiscal year relative to the three-year median.