Is the price fair?
What HRL's price assumes
Hormel Foods trades at 27.9× earnings against 13.7× for the median Packaged Foods name, more expensive than its own group.
27.9
Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 13.7 · 2.03× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.97
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q2
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.2%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 10%
- Growth the price implies
- +5.1%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +5.1% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −1.7% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q2
- 1.49
- EV / EBIT2026-Q2
- 19.1
- EV / sales2026-Q2
- 1.10
- Consumer Defensive median P/E115 names
- 21.5
- Packaged Foods median P/E28 names
- 13.7
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $693M
- Market capitalisation
- $13.3B
- 3-year revenue growth
- −0.13%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −1.7%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $15.62 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $17.98 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $20.22 |
| 52-week range | $19.74 – $28.12 |
| Today | $23.69 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.