Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL): Price and Financial Metrics

HRL POWR Grades

• HRL scores best on the Stability dimension, with a Stability rank ahead of 90.31% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for HRL is in Quality, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• HRL's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 9.86% of US stocks).

HRL Stock Summary

• With a market capitalization of $21,263,581,196, HORMEL FOODS CORP has a greater market value than 90.6% of US stocks.
• HORMEL FOODS CORP's stock had its IPO on January 2, 1990, making it an older stock than 89% of US equities in our set.
• Of note is the ratio of HORMEL FOODS CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 87.23% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to HRL, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are DOV, CHD, K, AVY, and DLTR.
• Visit HRL's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.hormelfoods.com.

HRL Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Consumer Defensive stock, HRL's price/sales ratio is 5.56% lower, now standing at 1.7.
• HRL's price/earnings ratio has moved up 6.8 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for HRL.

HRL Growth Metrics

Its year over year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 29.41%.
• Its 2 year price growth rate is now at -6.15%.
• The 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at 10.14%.

Over the past 33 months, HRL's revenue has gone up $2,937,410,000.

The table below shows HRL's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-09-30	12,458.81	1,134.977	999.987
2022-06-30	12,630.08	1,327.305	1,001.841
2022-03-31	12,459.34	1,217.786	959.843
2021-12-31	11,969.4	1,180.004	926.127
2021-09-30	11,386.19	1,001.934	908.839
2021-06-30	10,351.54	687.724	861.457

HRL's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• HRL has a Quality Grade of D, ranking ahead of 15.62% of graded US stocks.
• HRL's asset turnover comes in at 0.984 -- ranking 23rd of 59 Food Products stocks.
• JJSF, FARM, and KHC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with HRL.

The table below shows HRL's key quality metrics over time.