HRL Hormel Foods Corporation
Trend channel, buy level and 3-month target. Information only, not financial advice.
Inside the channel · 12-month channel going sideways
Price is between the lines.
- 9-month channel
- US$18.64 – US$27.00 · falling, −10% a year
- 12-month channel read from
- US$18.66 – US$27.29 · going sideways, −3% a year
- Price in channel
- 30% (0% = floor, 100% = ceiling)
- Ceiling overhead
- US$27.00
- Turns bearish below
- US$18.66
Price history, with the path projected 3 months forward
Updated 3:38 PM ET (116 h ago)
- Daily close
- Upper trend line (9 months)
- Lower trend line (9 months)
- The same lines over the last 12 months
- Dashed after today: projected 3 months
- Our buy
- Our target
Suggested path
Buy at or below
US$20.56
level as at 4 Dec 2026
Our target
US$23.02
by 5 Dec 2026
Projected move
12.0%
gross, before costs
Price is between our buy and target.
Target: HRL's usual move size (12.0%), the best return per day on this path.
This move size: reached in 13% of 21 past stretches, typically in 56 days. (0.21% per day)
- Upper line touches
- 3
- Lower line touches
- 3
- Fit confidence
- 85%
- Fitted
- 1 Nov 2026
Company information
About Hormel Foods Corporation
Hormel Foods Corporation is a prominent global food company that specializes in the creation, preparation, and supply of a diverse array of meat, nut, and other culinary items. Its extensive clientele spans retail outlets, institutional food providers (foodservice), specialty delis, and various commercial enterprises across the United States and internationally. The company's operations are strategically structured into four main divisions: Grocery Products, Refrigerated Foods, Jennie-O Turkey Store, and International & Other. Hormel's product portfolio is broad, encompassing numerous perishable goods such as fresh meats, frozen food selections, convenient refrigerated meal options, a variety of sausages, hams, guacamole, and bacon. Additionally, it offers a wide range of non-perishable items, including canned luncheon meats, various nut butters, snack nuts, chili, microwave-ready meals, hashes, stews, tortillas, salsas, and tortilla chips. Beyond these offerings, Hormel Foods is also actively involved in the processing, promotion, and distribution of both branded and unbranded products derived from pork, beef, poultry, and turkey. The company further supplies nutritional food items and supplements, dessert and beverage mixes, and industrial-grade gelatin. Its extensive product line is marketed under numerous widely recognized brand names, including SKIPPY, SPAM, Hormel, Natural Choice, Applegate, Justin's, Jennie-O, Café H, Herdez, Black Label, Sadler's, Columbus, Gatherings, Wholly, Planters, NUT-rition, Planters Cheez Balls, and Corn Nuts. These products reach consumers through a multi-channel distribution network, utilizing internal sales teams, independent brokers, and various distributors. Founded in 1891 as Geo. A. Hormel & Company, the organization was officially rebranded as Hormel Foods Corporation in January 1995. Its corporate headquarters are located in Austin, Minnesota.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Packaged Foods
- CEO
- Jeffrey Ettinger
- Employees
- 20,000
- Country
- US
Scorecard
Our own scores from the fundamentals below (not Morningstar ratings).
- Valuation
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- Profitability
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- Financial health
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- Cash generation
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Key statistics
- Market cap
- US$11.59B
- Enterprise value
- —
- Beta
- 0.29
- Avg volume
- 4.75M
- Revenue per share
- —
- Dividend yield
- —
- 52-week range
- 18.96-26.6
- Exchange
- NYSE
Key ratios
- P/E (TTM)
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- PEG
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- Price / sales
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- Price / book
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- EV / EBITDA
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- Gross margin
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- Operating margin
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- Net margin
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- Current ratio
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- Quick ratio
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- Debt / equity
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- Interest cover
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Income statement
Balance sheet
Cash flow
Trend lines are fitted to past swing highs and lows and may not continue. Information only, not financial advice.