Hormel Foods Corporation (HRL)

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Hormel Foods Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Hormel Foods Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $9.5 billion in fiscal 2016 to $12 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2.7% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 4% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-10-26, Hormel Foods Corporation's diluted share count grew about 0.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 59% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-27, buying about $201 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-10-26, Hormel Foods Corporation earned about 6 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 14 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 41 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.3% over the year (the filed statements).

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Hormel Foods Corporation's standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $12 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 24% by size; a net margin of 4% ranks in the top 46%; revenue growth of -1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 32% (its annual reports).

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Hormel Foods Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Ettinger, Jeffrey M (Interim CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-08-07, 1.3 years (bottom 24% of its family); the 23 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6 years (top 50%); 19 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 23 people in charge now (bottom 8%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Hormel Foods Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $671 million against debt of $2.9 billion leaves -16.3% of its assets as net cash, bottom 39% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 4.4% of revenue (bottom 44%); a gross margin of 15.6% (bottom 30%); research spending of 0.3% of revenue (bottom 36%) (its annual report).

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Hormel Foods Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1% a year over the last three filed years against 2.7% over all 10, slowing (bottom 39% of its family); the newest year grew 1.6% (bottom 42%); research spending grew 0.5% a year (bottom 31%); capital spending grew 3.7% a year (top 32%) (its annual reports). Hormel Foods Corporation reported 2 product lines in fiscal 2025: Perishable Meat at $8.8 billion (73%), Shelf Stable at $3.3 billion (27%); 1 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Hormel Foods Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $12 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.8% above the $12 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 32% of its family); net income of $478 million against a prior three-year average of $866 million (bottom 35%); a net margin of 4% against 7.1% before (bottom 29%) (its annual reports).