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The Motley Fool May 2, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Chewing on Tyson's Results A better-than-expected quarter raises the hope that operations have stabilized and growth is back in the story. Assuming management can improve the business and that there are no further shocks to the system, Tyson could again become an interesting stock.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Jacob Roche	This Company's Profits Are Flying the Coop Chicken producers like Sanderson Farms are caught between high feed costs and low selling prices.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2007 Billy Fisher	Smithfield Brings Home the Bacon Strong pork sales drive Smithfield Foods' big quarter. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Jacob Roche	Playing Chicken May Set These Companies Up for a Crash Poultry companies trying to outproduce each other may drive themselves into the ground.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Hormel: Something to Chew On Hormel Foods still generates free cash flow while straddling commodity and branded foodstuffs. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool October 8, 2009 Rich Duprey	Don't Cast Your Pearls Before These Swine Swine flu is about to make mincemeat of the pork producers.
The Motley Fool August 4, 2011 Jacob Roche	Don't Let Your Portfolio Get Wished Into the Cornfield High corn prices are crushing profits in certain industries.
The Motley Fool February 27, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Follow the Money to Hormel This may be the best-run meat company out there. However, its stock price reflects a lot of that, and it doesn't seem to be quite as interesting as an oversold value idea.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Markos Kaminis	Chicken Goes Cha-Ching for Tyson Tyson Foods is benefiting from rising protein prices and cost-cutting measures. Confidence in overseas demand, and minimal resistance to higher prices, led management to raise its fiscal 2007 guidance.
The Motley Fool November 16, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Tyson Foods Is Looking Cheap Rising sales, higher-margin products, and falling debt levels characterize Tyson Foods. Investors would be wise to look at the entire company, compare the value being offered, and add this budding value stock to their portfolio.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Hormel's Meaty Earnings Still thought of as a pork producer, Hormel has built a markedly diversified food business. Although the stock doesn't look like a screaming bargain today, long-term investors should probably sit tight.
The Motley Fool July 29, 2008 Toby Shute	Minuscule Margins in Meat Meat king Tyson is feeling the corn cost sting, and getting, well, slaughtered.
The Motley Fool August 12, 2011 Rich Duprey	Invest in AgFeed Industries? When Pigs Fly! A Chinese pork processor has its fat in the fryer from poor management decisions.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Tyson Gets Gored This could end up being good news for people who were watching these stocks with an eye toward buying in on bad news. Today's price action might push Tyson below a price-to-book ratio of 1, and that's not something that happens all too often.
The Motley Fool July 31, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Tyson Hopes You Feel Like Chicken Tonight When you buy amid wreckage, you've just got to accept that rebuilding takes time. Investors in Tyson Foods might do well to keep that in mind as they wait for this large food company to work through an industrywide glut in protein.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 David Lee Smith	Should the Markets Be Butchering Tyson? Despite its strong quarter, Tyson's chicken economics have it in a flap.
The Motley Fool March 1, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Where the Meat Meets the Street Valuation is starting to look much more reasonable at meat producer Smithfield Foods.
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Seth Jayson	Meat Master Trimmed on Hedges Chicken hawker Tyson Foods drops guidance, but is the sky really falling?
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The Motley Fool April 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Pilgrim's Pride Clucks In Strong cost control allowed the nation's No. 2 poultry producer to grow earnings on lower revenue. Investors may want to wait for a bargain price before purchasing this stock.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2004 W.D. Crotty	A Bargain at 7 Times Earnings Sanderson Farms is a great company trading at a low multiple of its 2004 earnings estimates.
The Motley Fool March 23, 2010 Rich Duprey	Pork's Got No Beef With China and Russia Two big export markets reopen doors to pork processors.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2010 Rich Duprey	Look Who's Bringing Home the Bacon Bans on U.S.-sourced pork and poultry are taking roost around the world.
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The Motley Fool February 14, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Smithfield's Makin' the Bacon The pork producer fattens up on higher hog prices. This stock is worth a look.
Science News May 31, 2003 Janet Raloff	Global Food Trends Last year, for the third year in four, world per-capita grain production fell. Even more disturbing in a world where people still go hungry, at 294 kilograms, last year's per capita grain yield was the lowest in more than 30 years.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Earnings Pig-Out Near-record hog prices benefit Smithfield results. Net income for the latest quarter rose 61% from year-ago levels on a 32% gain in sales.
The Motley Fool August 24, 2007 Lawrence Rothman	Hormel Loves Its Spam Hormel had an uneven quarter, but it has some classic brands and a new acquisition to fall back on. The stock is still trading at an attractive P/E of 17. It may be time to dig in.
The Motley Fool August 25, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Smithfield Faces Leaner Times Without last year's favorable pricing, this pork purveyor may be stuck in the mud. While the stock looks pretty cheap here on a P/E basis, the free cash flow picture is not nearly so appealing.
Food Processing November 2008	Tyson Goes on Shopping Spree in Brazil, China Tyson Foods took three Brazilian poultry factories under its wing in recent months, making more progress on its goal of expanding in emerging markets.
The Motley Fool January 7, 2009 Colleen Paulson	Devour Growth in 2009 You're going to keep eating. That's why the outlook for food stocks is surprisingly appetizing.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Pilgrim's Pride Feeds on Firm Prices The poultry producer raises earnings guidance, boosting the stock.
The Motley Fool November 30, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Smithfield: A Meaty Investment? Exports and value-added production hold promise, but this is still a commodity-focused business. While Smithfield doesn't seem overpriced, it's also not a top-notch idea for new money right now.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2005 W.D. Crotty	Tyson Pecks Out a Profit Chicken sales save the world's largest meat-processing company's third quarter. What investors should be watching, though, are Tyson's operating margins.
The Motley Fool October 3, 2011 Keki Fatakia	Cal-Maine's Earnings Chicken Out Cal-Maine reports a first quarter 35% net-income drop.
The Motley Fool August 31, 2007 Markos Kaminis	Smithfield Foods' Shanghai Surprise During their earnings conference call, Smithfield Foods officially announced a deal with an "undisclosed" trading company in China to deliver them sixty million pounds of pork. It's a modest deal, but it represents a foot in the doorway of the hugely important Chinese market.
The Motley Fool January 26, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Here's the Beef Tyson Foods wallows in the sweet spot of the high-protein diet craze.
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The Motley Fool November 14, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Tyson Foods' Fowl Fortunes Although this fiscal year's return on invested capital was better than the past few years', it's still just in the mid-single digits, a level which doesn't often bespeak a long-term winning stock idea.
Nutrition Action Healthletter August 2000 Michael F. Jacobson	News From CSPI The government needs to close the loopholes in its meat-labeling proposal. Fresh meat (including ground beef) and poultry should have to follow the same rules as all other foods. That means that every package should carry full nutrition information, and that deceptive "% lean" claims on ground beef should be prohibited.
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The Motley Fool August 23, 2006 Stephen D. Simpson	Smithfield Seems Fresher The pork producer looks like it's doing a little better in this protein glut. The stock has been a real trouper over the years -- easily outdistancing Hormel and Tyson. And yet the legacy of returns on invested capital is not all that great.
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The Motley Fool July 29, 2005 Stephen D. Simpson	Bachoco's Chicken Dance All but unknown in America, Industrias Bachoco is a leading Mexican chicken producer and worth a second look for investors who want to stretch their wings and drum up some international ideas.
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