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Conagra Brands Inc CAG Stock Quote

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  • Last Close 27.42
  • Sector Consumer Defensive
  • Industry Packaged Foods
  • Investment Style Mid Value
  • Day Range 27.30  –  27.63
  • Year Range 27.27  –  41.30
  • Market Cap 13.1031 Bil
  • Volume / Avg 3.9 Mil /  4.0 Mil
  • Price / Sales 1.07
  • Price / Book 1.50
  • Forward Div Yield 3.99%
  • Trailing Div Yield 4.89%

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Conagra Should Continue To Benefit From Supply Chain Optimization Efforts

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Business Strategy and Outlook

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When CEO Sean Connolly was brought in to turn around a struggling Conagra in 2015, he implemented a new brand building strategy referred to as the Conagra Way. The process calls for using data to identify product attributes that are driving growth and designing products to reflect those traits. The strategy also increases the productivity of marketing investments by shifting spend to the more efficient digital channel and to higher potential brands. In addition, the firm has significantly reshaped its portfolio inorganically, shedding non-branded or noncore businesses and acquiring brands that enhance the firm’s growth and/or profit margins. As a result, in recent years, sales have inflected from declines to growth, and from market share losses to modest gains. We think the pandemic, which resulted in four and a half years' worth of incremental new buyers and saved the firm hundreds of millions of dollars in customer acquisition costs, will accelerate the benefits Conagra is reaping from these efforts, as many new consumers have been exposed to its new fare. Once the food retail market normalizes post-pandemic, we think Conagra can realize 2% annual organic sales growth. In addition, Conagra has identified over $1 billion in supply chain savings to be realized by fiscal 2025, which should result in operating margins that reach 18% over the long term, up from the 15.4% metric realized in fiscal 2019, before the pandemic and its aftershocks disrupted the market.

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Conagra Brands is a packaged food company that operates predominantly in the United States (over 90% of revenue and profits). It has a significant presence in the freezer aisle, with brands such as Marie Callender’s, Healthy Choice, Banquet, and Birds Eye. Other popular brands include Duncan Hines, Hunt’s, Slim Jim, Vlasic, Orville Redenbacher's, Reddi-wip, Wish-Bone and Chef Boyardee. While the majority of revenue is sold into the U.S. retail channel, 9% of fiscal 2022 sales came from the food-service channel, down from 11% in fiscal 2019 due to the pandemic.

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222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza, Suite 1300
Chicago, IL, 60654
Industry Packaged Foods
Employees 18,600

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27.4263.99103.7433.64
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−$0.02 (0.07%) −$0.12 (0.19%) +$0.84 (0.82%) −$0.11 (0.33%)
Market Cap
13.10 Bil37.20 Bil276.79 Bil41.32 Bil
Industry
Packaged Foods Packaged Foods Packaged Foods Packaged Foods
Sector
Consumer Defensive
Consumer Defensive
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Yes. CAG has a forward dividend yield of 5.11%. See CAG’s full dividends and stock split history on the Dividend tab.
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CAG’s market cap is 13.10 Bil.
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CAG’s stock style is Mid Value.
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CAG’s price/sales is 1.07.
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CAG’s price/forward earnings is 19.31.
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CAG’s price/book is 1.50.
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