Hormel Foods Corp vs Nasdaq Inc — how do they compare? Hormel Foods Corp trades at $25.19 (market cap $13.91B), while Nasdaq Inc trades at $92.06 (market cap $51.96B). The key difference: Nasdaq Inc is far larger — about 3.7× Hormel Foods Corp's market cap, and Hormel Foods Corp pays the higher dividend (4.63%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| HRL | NDAQ | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $13.91B | $51.96B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Financials |
52-Week High | $29.52 | $100.98 |
52-Week Low | $19.74 | $76.85 |
Enterprise Value | $15.91B | $59.02B |
Dividend Yield | 4.63% | 1.22% |
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Hormel Foods is a protein-focused branded food company. Its brands include its namesake Hormel, Spam, Jennie-O, Dinty Moore, Applegate, Wholly Guacamole, and Skippy. The vast majority of the company's revenue is U.S.-based: 64% U.S. retail, 28% U.S. food service, and 8% international. By product type, in fiscal 2021, 23% of revenue was shelf-stable foods, 18% was poultry (branded and commodity), 55% 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.
Read more on HRL →Founded in 1971, Nasdaq is primarily known for its equity exchange, but in addition to its market-services business (about 35% of sales), the company sells and distributes market data as well as offers Nasdaq-branded indexes to asset managers and investors through its information-services segment (30%). Nasdaq's corporate-services business (20%) offers listing services and related investor relations products to publicly traded companies and through the company's market technology group (15%), Nasdaq facilitates the exchange operations of other exchanges throughout the world and provides financial compliance services.
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