Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
About Hormel Foods Corporation
Hormel Foods Corporation develops, processes, and distributes various meat, nut, and other food products to foodservice, convenience stores, and commercial customers in the United States and internationally. It operates through three segments: Retail, Foodservice, and International. The company provides perishable products, including fresh meats, frozen items, refrigerated meal solutions, bacon, sausages, hams, guacamole, and other items that require refrigeration, as well as shelf-stable products, such as canned luncheon meats, nut butters, snack nuts, chili, shelf-stable microwaveable meals, hash, stews, tortillas, salsas, tortilla chips, and other items that do not require refrigeration. It sells its products under the HORMEL, ALWAYS TENDER, APPLEGATE, AUSTIN BLUES, BACON 1, BLACK LABEL, BREAD READY, BURKE, CAFÉ H, CERATTI, CHI-CHI'S, COLUMBUS, COMPLEATS, CORN NUTS, CURE 81, DAN'S PRIZE, DI LUSSO, DINTY MOORE, DON MIGUEL, DOÑA MARIA, EMBASA, FAST N EASY, FIRE BRAISED, FONTANINI, HERDEZ, HORMEL GATHERINGS, HOUSE OF TSANG, JENNIE-O, JUSTIN'S, LA VICTORIA, LAYOUT, LLOYD'S, MARY KITCHEN, MR.
Sector: Consumer Defensive · Industry: Packaged Foods · United States · 20,000 employees · hormelfoods.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) had a market capitalization of $11.85B, a trailing P/E of 34.7 (forward 13.9), a dividend yield of 5.40% and a beta of 0.32; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $19.70 – $26.60 (-15.5% over the year).
- Market cap
- $11.85B
- Enterprise value
- $11.61B
- Trailing P/E
- 34.7
- Forward P/E
- 13.9
- PEG ratio
- 1.53
- Price / book
- 1.51
- EPS (trailing)
- $0.62
- EPS (forward)
- $1.55
- Dividend yield
- 5.40%
- Payout ratio
- 188.3%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2026-07-13
- 52-week range
- $19.70 – $26.60
- 52-week change
- -15.5%
- Beta
- 0.32
- Average volume
- 4.4M
- Shares outstanding
- 550.4M
- Short % of float
- 5.87%
- Profit margin
- 2.8%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) last closed at $20.84 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 25 (oversold territory), price -8.6% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -5.5%, MACD histogram -0.17.
Sentiment inputs: 71% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; StockTwits 100% bullish; analyst consensus score 62/100.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 1 sell of HRL; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 0 sells (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-09-01). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Kevin Hern (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
HRL has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell HRL.
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