HJ Heinz Company (HNZ): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Laggard
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H. J. Heinz Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets food products for consumers, and foodservice and institutional customers in North America, Europe, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. HJ Heinz Company has a market cap of $18.48 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 19.1, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.6% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are seven analysts that rate HJ Heinz Company a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and eight rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates HJ Heinz Company as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in stock price during the past year, increase in net income, good cash flow from operations and expanding profit margins. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full HJ Heinz Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 6.9%, and
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) being today's featured food & beverage industry leader.
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