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) P/B ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) trades at a P/B ratio of 1.4×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 1.3× (October 2026) to 5.6× (February 2016); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period. That is in line with the Packaged Foods industry median of 1.5× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 1.7×.

P/B ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/B ratio Change
FY2025 1.5× (28.28%)
FY2024 2.1× (8.97%)
FY2023 2.3× (31.54%)
FY2022 3.4× 0.80%
FY2021 3.3× (19.52%)
FY2020 4.1× 12.18%
FY2019 3.7× (10.73%)
FY2018 4.1× 23.98%
FY2017 3.3× (27.19%)
FY2016 4.6× 2.73%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/B ratio Change
Jul 2026 1.8× 18.06%
Apr 2026 1.5× (12.33%)
Jan 2026 1.7× 12.83%
Oct 2025 1.5× (21.46%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 1.3× High 5.6×
Ten-year median 3.7×
Current reading's percentile 1

P/B ratio against peers

Company P/B ratio
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare n/m
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 1.0×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 1.4×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 1.5×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 1.6×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 1.8×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 2.4×
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 2.4×
LW Lamb Weston compare 4.1×
Packaged Foods industry median 1.5×
Consumer Defensive sector median 1.7×
Market median 1.7×

What P/B ratio is

Price to Book Value tells an investor how much the market pays for a company’s shares relative to the accounting net worth that belongs to common shareholders.

Stock Price ÷ (Common Equity (Total) (latest quarter) ÷ Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter))

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