Hormel Foods Corporation

HRL Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

Hormel Foods Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended October 2025) was $12.1 billion, up 1.55% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to July 2026, revenue fell 2.36%, EPS fell 66.7%, free cash flow grew 107.2% and total debt was flat, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for ten consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

20.40 0.21 +1.04%
Market cap
$11.1B
P/E
32.4×
Fwd P/E
16.1×
Dividend yield
5.74%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
3.32
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
35/100

Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) Book value per share

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Hormel Foods Corporation's book value per share at the end of fiscal 2025 was 14.4×, unchanged from fiscal 2024. At the end of the quarter to 31 July 2026 it was 14.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 7.6× (fiscal 2015) to 14.6× (fiscal 2024); the current reading is higher than 91% of that period. Hormel Foods Corporation ranks 21st of 70 Packaged Foods companies by book value per share.

Book value per share, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Book value per share Change
FY2025 14.4× (1.47%)
FY2024 14.6× 3.10%
FY2023 14.2× 2.35%
FY2022 13.8× 7.30%
FY2021 12.9× 7.90%
FY2020 12.0× 7.83%
FY2019 11.1× 4.96%
FY2018 10.6× 12.96%
FY2017 9.3× 11.17%
FY2016 8.4× 11.01%

Quarterly newest first

Period Book value per share Change
Jul 2026 14.3× (1.33%)
Apr 2026 14.5× 0.12%
Jan 2026 14.4× 0.41%
Oct 2025 14.4× (2.15%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 7.6× High 14.6×
Ten-year median 12.0×
Current reading's percentile 91

Book value per share against peers

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BV per Share tells an investor how much of a company’s accounting net worth stands behind each share.

(Shareholders Equity (Total) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted))

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