HRLHormel Foods

$21.94+5.9% 1Y

Debt and balance sheet

Can HRL take a bad year?

Hormel Foods carries $1.99B of net debt at 2.41× EBITDA.

$1.99B

Net debt · as at Jul 26, 2026 · 2.41 times trailing EBITDA

Net debt / EBITDA
2.41×

Net debt / EBITDA · 1.63× a year ago · higher than a year ago

Interest cover
7.28×

Interest cover · operating profit divided by the interest bill

Annualised volatility
28%

Annualised volatility · S&P 500 17% · 1.6 times the S&P 500's own swing

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Total debtJul 26, 2026
$2.86B
Cash and short-term investments
$868M
Net debt
$1.99B
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$823M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$574M
Debt / equity
0.36×
Total debt / EBITDA
3.47×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
28%
Worst drawdown on file
−60%
Below its 52-week high
17%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.

Debt and solvency

What it owes against what it owns, and the Altman Z″ score built from it.

How far it has fallen

How much the price moves, how deep and how long its falls have run, and the return per unit of volatility.

Hormel Foods (HRL) Debt, Cash and Altman Z-Score · Ryufin