Passing rising costs along The next name up is Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), which owns iconic brands like Spam, Planters, and Skippy. That suggests that investors have a high-yield buying opportunity here that could actually benefit from the impact of the inflation currently helping to spook the market more broadly. And it has historically taken a very conservative approach to its balance sheet, with the current debt-to-equity ratio sitting at a reasonable 0.5 even after the company took on one of the biggest acquisitions in its history (Planters).