# RNN 1st Gen Model Hormel Foods Corporation Meat packing plants

Hormel Foods Corporation is a global branded food company with across 75 countries worldwide. Its brands include SKIPPY, SPAM, Hormel Natural Choice, Applegate, Justin's, Wholly Guacamole, Hormel Black Label and more than 30 other beloved brands. The company is a member of the S&P 500 Index and the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats, was named one of `The 100 Best Corporate Citizens` by Corporate Responsibility Magazine for the eighth year in a row, and has received numerous other awards and accolades for its corporate responsibility and community service efforts. The company announced its new vision for the future - Inspired People. Inspired Food - focusing on its legacy of innovation. Bringing high-quality branded products that are flavorful, nutritious and convenient puts us among the most trusted and well-known food companies in the world. Hormel Foods has brought innovation, beloved brands and outstanding value to their consumers, customers, communities and shareholders.

Industry sector: Consumer Staples

Sector classification: Meat packing plants

Deep Learning based analysis and prediction model for Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) stock is a 1st Generation Non-linear Autoregresive with exogenous variable(s) (NARX) model based on the Recurrent Neural Network architecture.

Model is in the production pipeline since Oct. 22, 2015.

Market data for HRL model training are being downloaded from the Quandl premium datasets on a daily basis.
Risks related to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the virus named “SARS-CoV-2” are accounted for in this model in the form of the historical data coincided with outbreaks and other global events in the past used to train ML prediction model for HRL.

Model is being retrained on a daily basis.