Hormel Foods
$20.25Change from previous close: +1.48%Absolute change: +$0.30
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $11.15B
- Enterprise value
- $12.99B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 32.7
- Forward P/E
- 12.9
- PEG
- 1.40
- Price/book
- 1.42
- Price/sales
- 0.92
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.3
- EV/revenue
- 1.07
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 15.7%
- Operating margin
- 8.6%
- Net margin
- 2.8%
- ROE
- 4.3%
- ROA
- 4.6%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- -2.4%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -67.2%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $868.45M
- Total debt
- $2.86B
- Debt/equity
- 0.36
- Current ratio
- 1.88
- Quick ratio
- 0.89
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $1.17
- Dividend yield
- 5.9%
- Payout ratio
- 188.3%
- Ex-dividend date
- October 13, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $25.94
- Median price target
- $26.00
- High price target
- $30.00
- Low price target
- $23.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 8
- Consensus
- Hold
- Forward EPS
- $1.57
- EPS estimate, current year
- $1.45
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.32
- Average volume
- 4.49M
- Shares outstanding
- 550.35M
- Float
- 290.82M
- Institutional ownership
- 91.4%
- Insider ownership
- 0.5%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 7.1%
- Short ratio (days)
- 3.68