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) EV/FCF

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As of 16 October 2026, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) trades at a EV/FCF of 16.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 16.0× (October 2026) to 69.6× (August 2021); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period.

EV/FCF, daily

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Annual newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
FY2025 26.3× 40.87%
FY2024 18.6× (28.27%)
FY2023 26.0× (19.34%)
FY2022 32.2× (4.14%)
FY2021 33.6× (2.15%)
FY2020 34.3× 5.02%
FY2019 32.7× 20.81%
FY2018 27.1× 35.81%
FY2017 19.9× (22.03%)
FY2016 25.6× 24.90%

Quarterly newest first

Period EV/FCF Change
Jul 2026 20.1× 0.88%
Apr 2026 19.9× (25.36%)
Jan 2026 26.7× 1.69%
Oct 2025 26.3× (6.80%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 16.0× High 69.6×
Ten-year median 26.2×
Current reading's percentile 1

EV/FCF against peers

What EV/FCF is

EV/Free CF shows how the value of a whole company, debt included, compares with the free cash its business produces.

((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)) ÷ (Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM))

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