Hormel Foods Corp vs Nomura Holdings Inc — how do they compare? Hormel Foods Corp trades at $25.19 (market cap $13.91B), while Nomura Holdings Inc trades at $9.4 (market cap $27.46B). The key difference: Nomura Holdings Inc is the larger of the two by market cap, and Hormel Foods Corp pays the higher dividend (4.63%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| HRL | NMR | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $13.91B | $27.46B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Financials |
52-Week High | $29.52 | $10.04 |
52-Week Low | $19.74 | $6.39 |
Enterprise Value | $15.91B | — |
Dividend Yield | 4.63% | 3.45% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
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 →Nomura is Japan's largest broker, about twice the size of rival Daiwa Securities and roughly three times the size of the securities units of the three megabanks. It is also the largest asset-management company in Japan, with a similar size differential compared with its rivals. Despite its topnotch brand name in retail broking and asset management in Japan, Nomura has struggled to compete effectively in the institutional securities business against larger global rivals. In 2008, Nomura bought European and Asian assets of the failed Lehman Brothers, which led to a sharply higher cost base but did not provide commensurate revenue. Nomura has reduced the scale of these businesses but maintains its ambition to compete globally with the top players.
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