10 Stocks That Were On Jim Cramer’s Radar As He Warned “It’s Too Early” To Buy

4. Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL)

Number of Hedge Fund Holders In Q2 2025: 38

Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL)’s shares, like its peers in the food industry, have struggled in 2025. They have lost 19% year-to-date after sinking by 13% in August after the firm’s fiscal third-quarter earnings. These results saw Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL) miss analyst EPS and revenue estimates by a wide margin. Cramer discussed the firm after the earnings and pointed out that a key reason behind the poor performance was higher beef prices, which constrained the firm’s ability to adjust its prices. This time, he commented on Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL)’s latest and disastrous quarter:

“Go over that Hormel quarter and you don’t feel like lightning strikes. You feel flooded. That was a horrible quarter.”

Here is what Cramer said about Hormel Foods Corporation (NYSE:HRL)’s pricing power:

“Hormel has zero pricing power. That’s just commodity, zero pricing power. Zero pricing power.

“Well you know, look, beef, cattle prices are just extreme. We’ve never seen this.”