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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
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Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) EV/EBITDA

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As of 16 October 2026, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) trades at a EV/EBITDA of 17.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 10.5× (October 2017) to 22.4× (April 2022); the current reading is higher than 74% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 8.3× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 10.0×.

EV/EBITDA, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
FY2025 14.8× 8.25%
FY2024 13.7× (6.07%)
FY2023 14.6× (16.88%)
FY2022 17.5× (6.76%)
FY2021 18.8× (3.70%)
FY2020 19.5× 25.41%
FY2019 15.6× (5.40%)
FY2018 16.5× 46.35%
FY2017 11.2× (16.84%)
FY2016 13.5× (5.02%)

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/EBITDA Change
Jul 2026 20.6× 40.24%
Apr 2026 14.7× (8.06%)
Jan 2026 16.0× 8.04%
Oct 2025 14.8× 11.06%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 10.5× High 22.4×
Ten-year median 15.5×
Current reading's percentile 74

EV/EBITDA against peers

Company EV/EBITDA
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare n/m
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 4.8×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 5.9×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 9.1×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 10.8×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 12.0×
LW Lamb Weston compare 12.1×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 17.3×
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 88.0×
Packaged Foods industry median 8.3×
Consumer Defensive sector median 10.0×
Market median 11.0×

What EV/EBITDA is

Enterprise Value over EBITDA tells an investor how the market values a whole company, with debt added and cash taken off, against its operating earnings.

((Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) + (Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter)) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)) ÷ EBITDA (TTM)

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