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/S ratio

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As of 16 October 2026, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) trades at a P/S ratio of 0.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 0.9× (October 2026) to 2.9× (November 2020); the current reading is higher than 1% of that period. That is above the Packaged Foods industry median of 0.6× and above the Consumer Defensive sector median of 0.7×.

P/S ratio, daily

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Annual newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
FY2025 1.0× (30.15%)
FY2024 1.4× (4.36%)
FY2023 1.5× (27.71%)
FY2022 2.0× (0.47%)
FY2021 2.0× (26.30%)
FY2020 2.8× 20.32%
FY2019 2.3× (5.14%)
FY2018 2.4× 35.11%
FY2017 1.8× (16.07%)
FY2016 2.1× 11.18%

Quarterly newest first

Period P/S ratio Change
Jul 2026 1.1× 17.20%
Apr 2026 1.0× (12.74%)
Jan 2026 1.1× 12.99%
Oct 2025 1.0× (23.48%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 0.9× High 2.9×
Ten-year median 2.0×
Current reading's percentile 1

P/S ratio against peers

Company P/S ratio
JBS JBS N.V. compare 0.1×
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 0.5×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 0.9×
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare 1.0×
LW Lamb Weston compare 1.1×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 1.5×
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 1.5×
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 1.6×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 0.6×
Consumer Defensive sector median 0.7×
Market median 1.9×

What P/S ratio is

Price to Sales Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of a company’s annual sales, whether or not it is profitable.

(Stock Price × Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)) ÷ Revenue (TTM)

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