Hormel Foods Corp vs Western Digital Corp — how do they compare? Hormel Foods Corp trades at $25.19 (market cap $13.91B), while Western Digital Corp trades at $557.96 (market cap $168.00B). The key difference: Western Digital Corp is far larger — about 12.1× 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 | WDC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $13.91B | $168.00B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Technology |
52-Week High | $29.52 | $746.23 |
52-Week Low | $19.74 | $67.06 |
Enterprise Value | $15.91B | $166.35B |
Dividend Yield | 4.63% | 0.12% |
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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 →Western Digital is a vertically integrated supplier of data storage solutions, spanning both hard disk drives and solid-state drives. In the HDD market it forms a practical duopoly with Seagate, and it is the largest global producer of NAND flash chips for SSDs in a joint venture with competitor Kioxia.
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