Hormel Foods Corporation

HRL · Consumer Defensive

$19.27
-1.18% today

What a holder would want to know before buying HRL: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $19.19 · Oct 2026High $26.51 · Jun 2026

Today’s price is 0% above the lowest point of the past year and 28% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on less than 1% of days and more expensive on more than 99%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on less than 1% of days.

17% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 3 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 65%; the longest took 2.0 years to get back to its peak. 2 of 3 have recovered so far.

It is in one now: 65% below the Apr 2022 peak.

Apr 2022
−65%not back yet
Aug 2020
−23%back in 20 months
Aug 2016
−24%back in 2.0 years
What you own

Hormel Foods Corporation · Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods · a large company worth $10.56B

Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nut, and other food products to foodservice, convenience stores, and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. It operates…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $12.11B in 2025, with $478.20M of profit. Sales grew in 1 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 3 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$868.45M
Debt
$2.86B
Free cash flow / yr
$621.55M

Would need about 4.6 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $31 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $12 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 6.02% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 13.

What others are doing

10 analysts: 3 say buy, 7 hold, 0 sell. Their average 12-month target is $25.56 (range $23.00–$30.00).

Insiders made 1 purchase and 1 sale in the last 6 months.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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