Hormel Foods (HRL) 18 Feb 212021 Q1 Earnings call transcript

Good morning, and welcome to the Hormel Foods First Quarter 2021 Earnings Conference Call. All participants will be in listen-only mode. [Operator Instructions] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunities to ask questions. [Operator Instructions] Please note this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Nathan Annis. ahead. go Please

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Please ahead. Peter from next be question of our go And Galbo Bank with will America.

question. two-parter. you maybe inflation. of gave a for And my the ask taking about the a Jim, it's pork Thanks around first bit color wanted just I question, to

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levels. for run the - to prices mid-X.XXs, range, year's in year We is somewhere these which above in that full expect the these last

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comes question next from ahead. Palmer go Tom Please the with And JPMorgan.

on to just side. I ask the wanted First, CapEx

$XX think, by outlook, million morning. I cut You your this

that to what pushed CapEx Planters? XXXX? Just reduction? up this the Is or curious were free there drove Are halted into other for maybe projects some specific

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that what disclose project is? you Can

No.

been hasn't announced that approved. It haven't yet. We

year. and ago, outlook And quarter be X% have then Sheehan, outlook a for should full Jim as EBIT we're thinking seeing input margin inflation as side, is Okay. pricing then instituted costs understood year? the just versus margin the I pricing. quarter an being you make being Do maybe just quarter timing how the toughest about the sure I of updated think Jennie-O And second that we during wanted that the an maybe now? Should given you cost on to about this mentioned that we quarter,

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The Moskow will come from with next Robert Please go ahead. Suisse. question Credit

mentioned you're think a you restaurant just foodservice Jim, and in more of mathematically, there's the International give expect COVID response to Jim year? that's you pricing secondly, what a throughout trends should give And last and you was for? little us on do specifics to - pricing you rates? more And lot the type mentioned questions. some you as I And then think of seeing quarter. declining pricing what is in weeks, the during Can we that from? pepperoni division of that that change the of couple level that Can over interesting a few one of A demand color being them.

that I we mean, seeing where Yes. Rob, fast-casual mentioned, it I'll is we're in perspective, restaurants, traditional ahead your more strength business. go mean, QSRs, from start. I a the foodservice and pizzerias

first We But of quarter second improve of the a best of weeks in terms pandemic since pickup we've towards in travel the continue haven't venues quarter, the as hotels. some really our some seen began. end the of business the seen into to the

of It also began. had we second end have the been before early business. some seen probably would increased October, So November wave

now it's real, to pepperoni forward. been really we ongoing to sustain believe are business know that this that new going that and has So then going trends we we're the the And not to throughout an be down. and able up was Any slowed line because expectations. we capacity-driven, the that for slowdown meeting have those which us that speed, new just never area and is really we're our pandemic

Rob. Good morning,

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but in no aspects mix, really improved in So International. it's here. - the is business internationally driver of all an This isn't it's broad-based I just a improvement pricing mean

International And strong business year, to Rob. we our balance remain of the for the expect

sales am if Okay. was XX%. reading I International, up were wrong? But I in but down this maybe volume I could, thought

driver? a it is mix So

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question with go the is And ahead. next from Michael Lavery Sandler. Piper Please

Refrigerated make I trajectory Foods understand to some margins. sure for I and of want just the the

get before You've been puts called already Or are and the come lowest the half? and might worse second it between out of mentioned those have margins some maybe here? since What's some know the takes should that it we the upswing I - it of now into through. from But you some the Does expect the gets better? benefits of are half and an we looks like headwinds, catalysts around clear. or should second XQ XXXX.

Refrigerated the Yes. for strength recovery. in obviously, the I Foods, are the positive mean, foodservice

we Refrigerated expect very continue hardest path a costs. if the on gets also impact. positive hit will so in COVID And - with we're to the that on, Foods be

hopefully balance be Foods the or to impact year the costs COVID mitigate see we will continue positive of as well. that Refrigerated as on so And over - a have

Sadler's are weather some we've production? affected. maybe risk there in moment, seen things some the - And maybe you know but maybe cattle, watchouts about second maybe just what doesn't quarter-to-date seen, to color the can reports impact is seem on a on follow-up And you've it Thanks. hogs any of Okay. also just any like give? like but any sort or I

So you're update just think maybe kind watching what on of any now.

not to Yes. We impacted. made some of a week for are difficult all natural I gas. mean, for of was a other the decisions prices lot week spot this And then spike locations increase. thing mitigate large in our is We a obviously, saw people. the quick

the a So, that's really any have Michael, longer-term short-term broad-based, impact, is to and the on business. impact going nothing of

Please The Theurer be will next ahead. Ben with Barclays. question go from

and Jim morning Jim. Good

X.X quick ones. Just

still benefit you the first elaborate from could inorganic, all, right, growth Sadler. organic of versus how because was first did if on remember So, a little I quarter bit

give in releases, earnings couldn't this to but points You in found data one. used it past those I

So, how like underlying Sadler's, was performance the just the to dynamic understand without here?

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are organic an our basis, on So, up. sales

on then just the up And international commentary around following the quickly piece.

you've on mentioned side. as some think the headwinds earlier well I freight of the

markets the good But serve you're on just international market business, just needs context. what the product understand your just comes to international been there recent and seeing freight because delivery what side a to most as in clearly, to And obviously, has So well. quarters. the the be when those surprisingly of International understand freight to are it on to expectations

for difficult mean, really is that part, I secure the containers Yes. making that Ben, the most business. sure just we

that's the our we I of team. so mean been And single-digits. overall about freight, low we about talk focus that's When talked International. inclusive really of

per of thinking total we're So view that's about company our how freight.

ahead. Sachs. The next question will be from Samuelson Adam with Goldman Please go

Davis for is Sarah This on Adam.

Just so on about for I growth side, question me. a the around the implying of sales year-over-year. kind guidance guess, ranges, between quick and X% thinking the X%

can you high it. Appreciate provide, end about range low world you super anything of gets versus guess, helpful. I the would to us state just what be the think of So the helping

foodservice for impact of to softness in I But might channels. It's some offsetting any Yes. significant is our aren't the you one it the an picks mean, key I have great going as is be that a to driver long Sarah. question, another. downturns of for really going mean, really as believe it's there us the balance expect as the year. to up, business we

that think to part play see large growth. a some our provide the also or going Products Refrigerated so, businesses, whether we recovery expect And still range. is actually our fall we to Foods in I Grocery what retail do looks But where it's business, like, retail in

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Montreal. Zaslow Please go next is Bank Ken the ahead. from of a follow-up And with question

environment? ahead parts; increase, it the it the the taking is, the covering the increase in sort any price increase? volume Two is I from when follow-up. pre-buying Or anticipatory? was is of current one appreciate of you're And Jennie-O it pricing

then current none environment. Yes. No, been performance the that it. Yes, of the by Ken. great have And questions, at to cover is Jennie-O no, would pricing

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