Weekly 52-Week Highs Highlight: Hormel Foods, MasterCard, Public Storage, NVIDIA

A glance at companies whose stocks have reached their yearly highs.

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Oct 19, 2015
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According to GuruFocus list of 52-week highs, Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL, Financial), MasterCard Inc. (MA, Financial), Public Storage (PSA, Financial) and NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA, Financial) have all reached their 52-week highs.

Hormel Foods Corp. reached the 52-week high of $66.54

The company has a market cap of $17.43 billion, and its shares were traded at around $65.90 with a P/E ratio of 26.50 and P/S ratio of 1.89. The dividend yield of Hormel Foods stocks is 1.52%. It had an annual average earnings growth of 8.20% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Hormel Foods the business predictability rank of 5-star.

Hormel Foods has released its third quarter results for 2015. In this quarter, the company generated diluted EPS of $0.54 compared to $0.51 in the prior year quarter. GAAP net earnings were up 6% year over year to $146.9 million while sales were down 4% to $2.2 billion. Sales volume was up 3%.

MasterCard Inc. reached the 52-week high of $99.18

MasterCard has a market cap of $110.54 billion. Its shares were traded at around $97.64 with a P/E ratio of 29.90 and P/S ratio of 11.81. The dividend yield of MasterCard stocks is 0.66%, and the company had an annual average earnings growth of 20.40% over the past five years.

MasterCard reported its second-quarter 2015 results ended June 30. Net income excluding a special item was $965 million for the quarter, up 4% year-over-year without currency adjustment. Diluted EPS was up 6% at $0.85. The company reported net revenue of $2.4 billion for this quarter, an increase of 1% year over year.

10% Owner Foundation Mastercard sold 8,830 shares of Mastercard stock on Oct. 14 at the average price of $95.95. Director Richard Haythornthwaite sold 3,000 shares of Mastercard stock on Oct. 1 at the average price of $90.54.

Public Storage reached the 52-week High of $220.51

Public Storage has a market cap of $37.93 billion. Its shares were traded at around $219.27 with a P/E ratio of 38.27 and P/S ratio of 16.54. The dividend yield of Public Storage stocks is 2.82% and the company had an annual average earnings growth of 6.40% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Public Storage the business predictability rank of 5-star.

Public Storage has released its second-quarter 2015 results ended June 30. For this period, the company generated net income of $263.9 million, or $1.52 per diluted share, compared to $218.4 million, or $1.26 per share for the same period of 2014. Quarterly funds from operations was $2.15 per diluted share compared to $1.99 last year.

NVIDIA Corp. reached the 52-week high of $28.12

NVIDIA has a market cap of $15.02 billion. Its shares were traded at around $27.86 with a P/E ratio of 29.40 and P/S ratio of 3.26. The company has a dividend yield of 1.31% and an annual average earnings growth of 10.50% over the past 10 years.

NVIDIA has released its fiscal second-quarter 2016 results ended July 26. In this quarter, revenue rose 5% year over year to $1.15 billion. Non-GAAP diluted EPS were $0.34, up 13% from the $0.30 reported a year ago.

EVP and CFO Colette Kress sold 27,077 shares of NVDA stock on Oct. 1 at the average price of $23.79. Principal Accounting Officer Michael Byron sold 50,000 shares of NVDA stock on Oct. 5 at the average price of $25.

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