BUNGE GLOBAL SA vs HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION, two Food & Beverage stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where BG and HRL diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), BG reads +8.4% and HRL reads -1.3%; on fcf yield, BG reads -5.6% and HRL reads 5.0%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's BG price has a different growth bar priced in than HRL (+8.4% implied for BG vs -1.3% for HRL); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What BG's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What HRL's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | BG | HRL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $106.14 | $25.01 |
| Market cap | $20.8B | $13.8B |
| Sector | Food & Beverage | Food & Beverage |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +8.4% | -1.3% |
| P/E | — | 29.4 |
| P/B | 1.19 | 1.73 |
| P/S | 0.26 | 1.13 |
| EV/EBITDA | 43.7 | 18.9 |
| Revenue growth | +57.8% | +2.5% |
| Gross margin | 3.5% | 17.4% |
| Operating margin | — | 7.3% |
| Net margin | 0.8% | 3.8% |
| Return on equity | 3.9% | 5.9% |
| Return on assets | 1.4% | 3.5% |
| Return on invested capital | — | 5.0% |
| FCF yield | -5.6% | 5.0% |
| Dividend yield | 2.6% | 4.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.91 | 0.36 |
| Current ratio | 1.60 | 1.94 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 8.34 | 7.91 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 3 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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