HRLHormel Foods

$21.23
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What HRL's price assumes

Hormel Foods trades at 33.7× earnings against 13.3× for the median Packaged Foods name, more expensive than its own group.

33.7

Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 13.3 · 2.54× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales
0.97

Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2

Free cash flow yield
5.9%

Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 10%

Growth the price implies
+3.5%

Growth the price implies · The price pays for +3.5% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −2.5% a year over the last three.

Details
Price / book2026-Q2
1.49
EV / EBIT2026-Q2
19.1
EV / sales2026-Q2
1.10
Consumer Defensive median P/E116 names
20.0
Packaged Foods median P/E28 names
13.3
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
$781M
Market capitalisation
$13.3B
3-year revenue growth
−0.13%
3-year free cash flow growth
−2.5%
What the market has paid for these earnings: 38 quarters of its own multiple × $0.63 of trailing earnings per share
MethodPer share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile$11.61
Its own P/E history, median$13.37
Its own P/E history, upper quartile$15.00
52-week range$19.74 – $28.12
Today$21.23

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.