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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) P/E ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) trades at a P/E ratio of 32.4×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 15.5× (October 2025) to 40.2× (August 2026); the current reading is higher than 99% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 13.4× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 18.1×.

P/E ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
FY2025 24.8× 19.41%
FY2024 20.8× (6.78%)
FY2023 22.3× (12.17%)
FY2022 25.4× (0.72%)
FY2021 25.6× (13.16%)
FY2020 29.4× 31.76%
FY2019 22.3× (2.21%)
FY2018 22.8× 17.32%
FY2017 19.5× (15.02%)
FY2016 22.9× (11.75%)

Quarterly newest first

Period P/E ratio Change
Jul 2026 39.7× 57.17%
Apr 2026 25.3× (8.09%)
Jan 2026 27.5× 10.75%
Oct 2025 24.8× 21.03%
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 15.5× High 40.2×
Ten-year median 23.7×
Current reading's percentile 99

P/E ratio against peers

Company P/E ratio
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare n/m
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 6.9×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 8.3×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 12.8×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 16.3×
LW Lamb Weston compare 28.9×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 32.4×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 59.3×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 13.4×
Consumer Defensive sector median 18.1×
Market median 18.1×

What P/E ratio is

Price to Earnings Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual profit per share.

Stock Price ÷ EPS (Basic) (TTM)

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