CAG
ConAgra Foods Inc., symbol CAG on New York, makes a wide variety of packaged foods, including Chef Boyardee canned pasta, Hunt’s Tomato Sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter and Orville Redenbacher popcorn. The company’s consumer foods segment accounts for 63% of its sales, while the remaining 37% from its commercial foods business.
ConAgra is one of the companies we analyze in …read more »
ConAgra Foods Inc. (New York symbol CAG) makes a wide variety of packaged foods, including Chef Boyardee canned pasta, Hunt’s tomato sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter and Orville Redenbacher popcorn.
The company gets 67% of its revenue by selling its products to consumers. It gets the remaining 33% by selling foods to businesses.
In its 2011 second quarter, which ended November 28, …read more »
CONAGRA FOODS INC. $23 (New York symbol CAG; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 443.4 million; Market cap: $10.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; Dividend yield: 3.5%; WSSF Rating: Above Average) makes a wide variety of packaged foods, including Chef Boyardee canned pasta, Hunt’s tomato sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter and Orville Redenbacher popcorn.
The company gets 64% of its revenue by …read more »
Food processors like the seven companies we analyze below add stability to any portfolio. That’s because they’ve built brands that have strong customer loyalty and produce steady, predictable revenue streams. These seven firms’ strong brands are also helping them expand in developing markets, such as Asia and Latin America.
These seven stocks trade at reasonable multiples to earnings, and have long …read more »
CONAGRA FOODS INC. $22 (New York symbol CAG; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 443.1 million; Market cap: $9.7 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.8; WSSF Rating: Above Average) has sold most of its fresh-food and animal-feed businesses over the past few years to focus on its more profitable packaged-food operations. ConAgra’s major brands include Chef Boyardee pasta, Hunt’s ketchup and Peter …read more »
Food companies add stability to your portfolio. While they have to deal with changing costs and eating trends, they benefit from continuous, habitual buying by regular customers regardless of the overall economy. The recession has prompted more consumers to switch to cheaper, generic brands. But falling raw-material costs will let these six top food companies lower their prices, maintain their …read more »
CONAGRA FOODS INC. $20 (New York symbol CAG; Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 447.2 million; Market cap: $8.9 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.7; WSSF Rating: Above Average) makes a number of packaged foods, including Chef Boyardee canned pasta, Hunt’s tomato sauce, Peter Pan peanut butter and Orville Redenbacher popcorn.
In its third fiscal quarter, which ended February 22, 2009, ConAgra’s earnings …read more »
CONAGRA FOODS INC. $16 (New York symbol CAG, Income Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 447.1 million; Market cap: $7.2 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 0.5; WSSF Rating: Above Average) reports that a recent salmonella outbreak has lowered sales of its Peter Pan peanut butter. However, the source of the contamination, Peanut Corp. of America, is not one of its suppliers. In 2007, …read more »
CANADIAN NATIONAL RAILWAY CO. $44 (Toronto symbol CNR; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 464.9 million; Market cap: $20.5 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.5; SI Rating: Above Average) operates the largest freight-rail network in Canada, and serves 16 U.S. states. It hauls consumer and industrial goods, which accounted for 21% of its 2008 revenue, forest products (19%), grain …read more »
CANADIAN REIT $20.90 (Toronto symbol REF.UN; Units outstanding: 61.1 million; Market cap: $1.3 billion; SI Rating: Extra Risk) owns a portfolio of more than 160 income properties, consisting of retail, industrial and office properties across Canada and in the Chicago, Illinois, area. Occupancy is at 96.5%.
Revenue in the three months ended September 30, 2008, was $79.6 million, up 10.0% from …read more »
