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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) Price to free cash flow

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As of 16 October 2026, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) trades at a price to free cash flow of 14.3×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 13.5× (October 2026) to 62.3× (August 2021); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 8.7× and in line with the Consumer Defensive sector median of 14.7×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 22.2× 34.14%
FY2024 16.6× (27.07%)
FY2023 22.7× (23.06%)
FY2022 29.5× (1.96%)
FY2021 30.1× (13.71%)
FY2020 34.9× 6.43%
FY2019 32.8× 22.03%
FY2018 26.9× 33.25%
FY2017 20.2× (21.74%)
FY2016 25.8× 25.23%

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Jul 2026 17.6× 3.05%
Apr 2026 17.0× (26.86%)
Jan 2026 23.3× 4.89%
Oct 2025 22.2× (9.75%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 13.5× High 62.3×
Ten-year median 25.0×
Current reading's percentile 1

Price to free cash flow against peers

Company Price to free cash flow
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 8.6×
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 8.9×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 10.8×
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 11.5×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 13.5×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 14.3×
LW Lamb Weston compare 17.2×
JBS JBS N.V. compare 24.3×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 8.7×
Consumer Defensive sector median 14.7×
Market median 14.2×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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