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

21.93 0.67 −2.96%
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) Revenue growth

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Hormel Foods Corporation's revenue growth over the twelve months to 31 July 2026 was 0.73%, down 0.8 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (1.55%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −3.74% (fiscal 2017) to 18.5% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 64% of that period. That is below the Packaged Foods industry median of 3.59% and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 4.10%.

Revenue growth, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Revenue growth Change (points)
FY2025 1.55% 3.11
FY2024 −1.56% 1.24
FY2023 −2.80% (12.22)
FY2022 9.42% (9.08)
FY2021 18.5% 17.33
FY2020 1.17% 1.68
FY2019 −0.51% (4.64)
FY2018 4.13% 7.87
FY2017 −3.74% (6.54)
FY2016 2.80% 3.36

Quarterly newest first

Period Revenue growth Change (points)
Jul 2026 −2.36% (4.91)
Apr 2026 2.55% 1.26
Jan 2026 1.29% (0.23)
Oct 2025 1.52% (3.12)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −3.74% High 18.5%
Ten-year median 1.17%
Current reading's percentile 64

Revenue growth against peers

Company Revenue growth
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. compare 16.0%
JBS JBS N.V. compare 14.3%
MKC McCormick & Company, Incorporated compare 13.2%
SJM The J. M. Smucker Company compare 5.08%
LW Lamb Weston compare 2.58%
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation 0.73%
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare −0.60%
GIS General Mills, Inc. compare −4.49%
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 3.59%
Consumer Defensive sector median 4.10%
Market median 7.58%

What Revenue growth is

Revenue Growth shows how fast a company’s sales are rising or falling compared with the same period a year earlier.

(Revenue − Revenue a year earlier) ÷ |Revenue a year earlier|

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