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Market cap

11.2B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E13.6

P25 11.3P50 15.2P75 20.1

Trailing P/E23

P25 12.9P50 17.8P75 28.8

ROE6.1

P25 -17.2P50 6.8P75 17.2

ROIC6.8

P25 -6.6P50 6.3P75 13.6

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Indicator catalog

All HRL market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

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Showing 282 of 282 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000048465
Company name	Hormel Foods Corporation
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	440452100
Employees	20,000
Employees Change	0%
Employees Change Percent	0
Enterprise value	$13.2B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500
Industry	Packaged Foods
Isin	US4404521001
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$11.2B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$20.44
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	607,233.2x
Sector	Consumer Staples
Sic	2011
Symbol	HRL
Website	https://www.hormelfoods.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	4.35%
EV Earnings	26.98x
EV Sales Forward	1.06x
EV/EBIT	13.95x
EV/EBITDA	10.9x
EV/FCF	22.86x
EV/Sales	1.09x
FCF yield	5.13%
Forward P/E	13.58x
P/B ratio	1.42x
P/E ratio	22.99x
P/S ratio	0.93x
PE Ratio10 Y	24.11x
PE Ratio3 Y	23.47x
PE Ratio5 Y	25x
PEG ratio	2.34x
PS Forward	0.91x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	7.79%
EBITDA Margin	9.98%
FCF margin	4.76%
Gross margin	15.61%
Gross Profit	$1.9B
Gross Profit Growth	-4.87%
Gross Profit Growth Q	-1.15%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	-3.69%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	0.08%
Net Income	$489.4M
Net Income Growth	-35.33%
Net Income Growth Q	6.58%
Net Income Growth Quarters	1%
Net Income Growth Years	0%
Net Income Growth3 Y	-20.61%
Net Income Growth5 Y	-11.22%
Pretax Margin	5.6%
Profit Margin	4.03%
Profit Per Employee	$24,471
Profitable Years	31
ROA	4.43
Roa5y	5.37
ROCE	7.86
ROE	6.12
Roe5y	10.79
ROIC	6.76
Roic5y	8.95

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	-3.65%
Cagr15y	4.74%
Cagr1y	-26.29%
Cagr20y	6.88%
Cagr3y	-17.64%
Cagr5y	-12.58%
Div CAGR10	7.99%
Div CAGR3	2.88%
Div CAGR5	4.06%
EPS Growth	-35.52
EPS Growth Q	6.45
EPS Growth Quarters	1
EPS Growth Years	0
EPS Growth3 Y	-20.65
EPS Growth5 Y	-11.31
FCF Growth	-35.15%
FCF Growth Q	18.22%
FCF Growth3 Y	-5.7%
FCF Growth5 Y	-6.21%
OCF Growth	-24.46%
OCF Growth Q	12.94%
OCF Growth10 Y	-1.45%
OCF Growth3 Y	-2.49%
OCF Growth5 Y	-5.02%
Revenue Growth	1.95x
Revenue Growth Q	1.29x
Revenue Growth Quarters	4x
Revenue Growth Years	1x
Revenue Growth3 Y	-0.65x
Revenue Growth5 Y	4.63x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$0.91
Assets	$13.3B
Cash	$901.2M
Current Assets	$3.4B
Current Liabilities	$1.3B
Debt	$2.9B
Debt EBITDA	$1.77
Debt Equity	$0.36
Debt FCF	$4.95
Equity	$8B
Interest Coverage	12.09
Liabilities	$5.4B
Long Term Assets	$9.9B
Long Term Liabilities	$4.1B
Net Cash	$-2B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-17.39
Net Debt EBITDA	$1.61
Net Debt Equity	$0.25
Net Debt FCF	$3.39
Tangible Book Value	$1.5B
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$2.66
WACC	5.16

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	2.66
Inventory Turnover	6.48
Net Working Capital	$1.2B
Quick ratio	1.3
Working Capital	$2.1B
Working Capital Turnover	$6

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	-0.25%
Dividend Growth	1.75%
Dividend Growth Years	60%
Dividend per share	$1.17
Dividend Years	60
Dividend Yield	5.72%
Ex Div Date	2026-04-13
Last Dividend	$0.29
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	131.02%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	-31.04%
1Y total return	-26.28%
200-day SMA	24.07
3Y total return	-44.13%
50-day SMA	22.17
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50under200
5Y total return	-48.93%
All Time High	55.11
All Time High Change	-62.91%
All Time High Date	2022-04-21
All Time Low	0.1
All Time Low Change	20,821.19%
All Time Low Date	1968-03-15
ATR	0.53
Beta	0.31
Beta1y	0.46
Beta2y	0.12
Ch YTD	-13.76
High	20.85
High52	31.86
High52 Date	2025-07-10
High52ch	-35.84%
Low	20.42
Low52	20.32
Low52 Date	2026-04-13
Low52ch	0.62%
Ma50ch	-7.8%
Premarket Change Percent	0.24
Premarket Price	$20.8
Premarket Volume	1,817
Price vs 200-day SMA	-15.09%
RSI	37.05
RSI Monthly	31.01
RSI Weekly	34.91
Sharpe ratio	-1.15x
Sortino ratio	-1.23
Total Return	5.47%
Tr YTD	-11.41
Tr15y	100.29%
Tr1m	-3.35%
Tr1w	-4.17%
Tr3m	-16.84%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	6
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$0.36
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	2.86
Earnings Revenue Estimate	2,958,278,480x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	2.08x
Operating Income	$946.5M
Operating Income Growth	-10.2
Operating Income Growth Q	-5.95
Operating Income Growth3 Y	-8.77
Operating Income Growth5 Y	-3.41
Operating margin	7.79
Price target	$26.5
Price Target Change	$29.65

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	290,709,358%
Float Percent	52.83%
Net Borrowing	-7,453,000
Shares Insiders	0.53%
Shares Institutions	45.13%
Shares Out	550,284,207
Shares Qo Q	0.04%
Shares Yo Y	0.25%
Short Float	7.78%
Short Ratio	4.67
Short Shares	4.11

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$550.5M
Average Volume	4,607,583.05x
Bv Per Share	14.43
CAPEX	$-307.7M
Ch10y	-46.98
Ch15y	41.01
Ch1m	-4.71
Ch1w	-4.17
Ch1y	-29.78
Ch20y	141.7
Ch3m	-18.01
Ch3y	-50.39
Ch5y	-56.64
Ch6m	-7.22
Change	-1.49%
Change From Open	-1.92
Close	20.75
Days Gap	0.43
Depreciation Amortization	265,124,000
Dollar Volume	83,244,168.8
Earnings Date	2026-05-28
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$946.5M
EBITDA	$1.2B
EPS	$0.89
F Score	6
FCF	$577.5M
FCF EV Yield	4.37x
FCF Per Share	$1.05
Financing CF	-633,366,000
Fiscal Year End	October
Founded	1,891
Goodwill	4,888,532,000
Graham Number	16.98991
Graham Upside	-16.88
Income Tax	$190.7M
Investing CF	-230,311,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-02-26
Last Report Date	2026-01-25
Last Split Date	2016-02-10
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-12-05
Lynch Fair Value	$4.45
Lynch Upside	-78.25
Ma150	23.17
Ma150ch	-11.76%
Ma20	21.06
Ma20ch	-2.95%
Net CF	27,508,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-05-28
Open	20.84
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	19.48
P OCF Ratio	12.71
Payment Date	2026-05-15
Position In Range	4.65
Post Close	20.44
Postmarket Change Percent	0.2
Postmarket Price	$20.48
Ppne	2,241,482,000
Pre Close	20.75
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$9.28
Ptbv Ratio	7.69
Relative Volume	0.88x
Revenue	12,144,664,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.22x
Share Based Comp	27,067,000
Tax By Revenue	1.57x
Tax Rate	28.05%
Tr20y	278.08%
Tr6m	-4.7%
Us State	Minnesota
Views	84
Volume	4,072,611
Z Score	3.81

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Income

HRL dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+5.7%

$1.17 annual per share

Payout ratio

+131.0%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+4.1%

60 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+5.5%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-13

Performance

HRL stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns HRL?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+45.1%

Float: +52.8% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.5%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

HRL momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

37.1

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-15.1%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.31

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

-1.15

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

HRL vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
COST	Costco Wholesale Corporation	447.6B	52.5x	1.6x	37.8%	+9.9%	+0.7%	बेचें
KO	The Coca-Cola Company	337.4B	24.7x	6.8x	19.6%	+8.1%	+11.5%	मज़बूत ख़रीद
MO	Altria Group Inc.	113.8B	14.2x	5.6x	66.4%	-0.3%	+19.7%	होल्ड

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