Hormel Foods Financial Ratios
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Hormel Foods ratio analysis
Hormel Foods earned a net margin of 4.0% in FY 2025, down from 6.8% a year earlier. Gross margin was 15.6% compared with a median of 19.0% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 6.1%, meaning Hormel Foods generated 0.06 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.36 versus 0.36 the year before, and the current ratio was 2.47. At the end of FY 2025, HRL traded at 27.4 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 19.4 to 29.9, with a median of 22.9. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Hormel Foods financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 27.39 | 21.13 | 21.65 | 25.80 | 25.49 | 29.89 | 22.54 | 22.13 | 19.35 | 23.30 |
| Price / sales | 1.08 | 1.43 | 1.42 | 2.05 | 2.01 | 2.78 | 2.28 | 2.29 | 1.75 | 2.12 |
| Price / book | 1.66 | 2.13 | 2.22 | 3.40 | 3.28 | 4.15 | 3.66 | 3.90 | 3.25 | 4.55 |
| Gross margin | 15.6% | 17.0% | 16.5% | 17.4% | 16.9% | 19.0% | 19.8% | 20.7% | 21.8% | 22.7% |
| Operating margin | 5.9% | 9.0% | 8.9% | 10.5% | 9.9% | 11.5% | 12.6% | 12.4% | 13.9% | 13.9% |
| Net margin | 4.0% | 6.8% | 6.6% | 8.0% | 8.0% | 9.5% | 10.3% | 10.6% | 9.2% | 9.3% |
| Free cash flow margin | 4.4% | 8.5% | 6.4% | 6.9% | 6.8% | 7.9% | 6.6% | 8.9% | 8.9% | 8.2% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 6.1% | 10.1% | 10.3% | 13.3% | 13.0% | 14.1% | 16.5% | 18.1% | 17.2% | 20.0% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 3.6% | 6.0% | 5.9% | 7.5% | 7.2% | 9.2% | 12.1% | 12.4% | 12.1% | 12.8% |
| Debt / equity | 0.36 | 0.36 | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.48 | 0.20 | 0.04 | 0.11 | 0.05 | 0.06 |
| Current ratio | 2.47 | 2.32 | 1.43 | 2.47 | 2.08 | 2.38 | 2.14 | 1.80 | 1.92 | 1.93 |
| Revenue growth | 1.6% | -1.6% | -2.8% | 9.4% | 18.5% | 1.2% | -0.5% | 4.1% | -3.7% | 2.8% |
| EPS growth | -40.8% | 1.4% | -20.3% | 9.6% | 0.0% | -7.8% | -3.2% | 18.5% | -4.3% | 29.1% |