back in late january, mccormick reported, falling to $61.23.wo weeks later i told you to buy the stock because after the post earnings pullback, mccormick bounces back virtually every time. lo and behold the stock is now up 13%, as i told you. tuesday of last week, mccormick reported again, delivering a good quarter. company reaffirmed its full year guidance and the stock got banged. and in the days that followed, the stock fell. i cannot stress enough these earnings induced pullbacks are really your best if not your only opportunities to buy mccormick. they're pretty much the only moments when the stock isn't chugging higher. so let's check in with alan wilson, chairman, president and ceo of mccormick and company and find out more about the quarter and where his business is headed. mr. wilson, welcome back to "mad money." >> great to see you. >> we bumped into each other at the super bowl, and it turns out from your conference call in new orleans that that turned out to be a very significant weekend for your business, because of the way things

mccormick is everywhere.trol 50% of the market for store brand spices. this is terrifically consistent company, a slow but steady grower that pays 1.9% yield. that is deceptively low because the stock seems to rally faster than the payout. if you bought mccormick five years ago at the beginning of the financial meltdown, you would have a 113% return with reinvested dividends. over the last 20 years, the stock is up 818% with dividends while the s&p 500 would give you just half that, 414% return with reinvested dividends. however, even though mccormick has been trending higher for years, the stock almost always sells off whenever the company reports earnings lately. back in late january, mccormick reported $61.23. two weeks later i told you to buy the stock because after the post earnings pullback, mccormick bounces back virtually every time. lo and behold the stock up 13%, as i told you. tuesday of last week, mccormick reported again, a good quarter. company reaffirmed its full year guidance and the stock got

whose corporation is based in chicago, mccormick reaper. and he just blew out william jennings bryant, the boy orator from platte, nebraska, who is the populist, and that year the economic party candidate. his time around, 2012, the money raised was a lot more even. and contrary to a lot of expectations, as we'll get into, but i wanted to just start out with some basic facts before we start our discussion. et's start with you, spencer. how much did you raise ltogether, and how much of that was used for division and the other important functions of the campaign? >> thanks, jonathan. let me start by saying thank you to everyone at the institute of politics. david, thank for you hosting me here and allowing me to be here. coming from boston and from the romney campaign, i got an invitation to come to chicago and come to the institute of politics and pause and say well, gosh, i wonder how i'm oing to met at the institute of politics and president barack obama's back yard. and i have to compliment everyone here at the institute of politics for t

cheryl: mike mccormick, interesting research you all did. of the sectors we follow here. thank you. >> sure thing, thank you. dennis: corn prices have been on a bipolar ride. phil flynn at the taste of the cme. phil: you want 400 million reasons to be short corn? but how many more bushels the u.s. department of agriculture found when they shocked the corn world with the inventory report. since then, the biggest two-day drop in the corn market since the mid-1990s. the whole world was looking to the u.s. thinking we had a shortage of corn, and all of a sudden we have 400 alien more bushels than the world had thought. and that is impacting buyers around the world. are they going to wait for the u.s. prices to get more in line with what is happening in south america, or will they wait for the u.s. crop? today going down for the third day in a row, the corn globe is still shocked. back to you, dennis. cheryl: thank you. stocks every 15 minutes. nicole is on the floor at the new york stock exchange. really exciting market day. i know you're lookin

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whose corporation is based in chicago, mccormick reaper. and he just blew out william jennings bryant, the boy orator from platte, nebraska, who is the populist, and that year the economic party candidate. this time around, 2012, the money raised was a lot more even. and contrary to a lot of expectations, as we'll get into, but i wanted to just start out with some basic facts before we start our discussion. let's start with you, spencer. how much did you raise altogether, and how much of that was used for division and the other important functions of the campaign? >> thanks, jonathan. let me start by saying thank you to everyone at the institute of politics. david, thank for you hosting me here and allowing me to be here. coming from boston and from the romney campaign, i got an invitation to come to chicago and come to the institute of politics and pause and say well, gosh, i wonder how i'm going to met at the institute of politics and president barack obama's back yard. and i have to compliment everyone here at the institute of politics f

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. >> you mean they decided to favor a mccormick product instead of you or something? >> well, clubs -- several of the club chains are all about -- they like to say -- we want it to be a treasure hunt. so even when they do something this year that's very successful, that doesn't mean they're going to do it next year. they want their consumer to go in and be surprised sometimes that, oh, look what's here today. >> we talked to former ceo jim sinegal, and he said, listen, it's the pants that bring them in. then they spend on other things. how about the end of trade down, hearing that people are going back to branded. >> i think they're going back to brands because, first off, the brands are being more aggressive about promoting items where it's appropriate and things like that. that's one of the things we talked about on the call, was doing more promotions. and i think, you know, as people start to feel better, they're going to treat themselves more or return a little bit more to quality where they perceive there is a quality difference. so brands prosper in better times

as for earnings, look for numbers from spicemaker mccormick and global payments. we'll get u.s.auto sales data which as you heard if you were with us earlier should be pretty strong. now attention is shifting to the next earnings season. let's get some thoughts here with us still brian reynolds, chief market strategist at rosenblatt securities. brian, to can earnings matter? >> earnings matter in the short-term. but the credit boom has propelled earnings per share higher. that helps the longer term, as well. wa we're seen from the last number of earnings seasons, and i think we'll see again, is that revenues disappoint because this is a slow economy. the economy is improving a little bit, but it's still the slowest economic expansion since world war ii. so you can't expect revenues to outpace economic growth. but werings per share have outpaced revenues because of all the buybacks. we've done a trillion dollars worth of buybacks and that's a direction function of the credit boom that we're in. >> so are you suggesting that the earnings growth that we've seen, which has been quit

we got them all to make major donations to american the campaign mccormick he blew l. william jennings bryan to the populist the democratic party candid. it was a lot more even and contrary to a lot of expectations a wanted to start out with some basic facts before we start our discussion. let's start with you, spencer. how much did you raised altogether and how much of that was used for television and fur field organization and some of the other important functions of the campaign? >> well, thanks, jonathan. let me start by saying thank-you to everyone for hosting and allowing me to be here. coming from boston and the romney campaign, got an invitation to come to chicago. the politics. well, gosh, i wonder how will be back at the it's to the politics president park obama's backyard. i have to compliment everyone here at the institute of politics for the way the you have welcomed not just me and other members of the romney campaign. thank you for allowing conversations like this take place or we could look beyond the partisan nature of politics and have a real conversa