HRLHormel Foods
Is the price fair?
A demanding price: at the top of its own P/E range and rich vs its sector.
Priced for ~4% a year FCF growth. Moderate growth expectations are priced in.
Expensive vs its own history: P/E 30.5 vs a 21.0 median over 41 quarters (+45% vs median).
Sector median 16.6× across 78 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Unless marked, from derived, as of Jul 26, 2026.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What HRL's price assumes
Hormel Foods trades at 30.5× earnings against 14.2× for the median Packaged Foods name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Packaged Foods median 14.2 · 2.14× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.09
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jul 26, 2026
- Free cash flow yield
- 5.9%
Free cash flow yield · Packaged Foods median 8.7%
- 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 / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jul 26, 2026
- 1.70
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jul 26, 2026
- 26.6
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jul 26, 2026
- 1.26
- Consumer Defensive median P/E142 names
- 20.2
- Packaged Foods median P/E37 names
- 14.2
- 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%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $11.64 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $13.23 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $14.82 |
| 52-week range | $19.20 – $26.05 |
| Today | $19.20 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Packaged Foods
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