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.

Revenue
−2.36%
EPS
−66.7%
Free cash flow
+107.2%
Total debt
−0.06%

Quarter to July 2026, against a year earlier

22.02 0.58 −2.57%
Market cap
$12.4B
P/E
35.8×
Fwd P/E
16.8×
Dividend yield
5.19%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
3.32
Beneish M
−2.58
Dividend safety
35/100

Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) Free cash flow margin

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Hormel Foods Corporation's free cash flow margin over the twelve months to 31 July 2026 was 6.45%, up 2.0 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (4.41%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 4.41% (fiscal 2025) to 9.35% (fiscal 2015) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 2.31% and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.51%.

Free cash flow margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Free cash flow margin Change (points)
FY2025 4.41% (4.07)
FY2024 8.48% 2.01
FY2023 6.47% (0.41)
FY2022 6.88% 0.10
FY2021 6.78% (1.16)
FY2020 7.94% 0.92
FY2019 7.02% (2.01)
FY2018 9.03% 0.13
FY2017 8.90% 0.60
FY2016 8.30% (1.05)

Against its own ten years

Low 4.41% High 9.35%
Ten-year median 7.94%
Current reading's percentile 9

Free cash flow margin against peers

Company Free cash flow margin
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 17.4%
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 12.1%
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 8.46%
LW Lamb Weston compare 6.49%
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 6.45%
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 6.21%
JBS JBS N.V. compare 0.60%
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 0.00%
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 2.31%
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.51%
Market median 0.00%

What Free cash flow margin is

Free Cash Flow Margin tells an investor how much of each sale turns into cash the company keeps after paying for investment in its assets.

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

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